Trusting COTS - What's really in the box?

Tue Jun 8 05:51:40 UTC 2004

Sean Donelan wrote:

> How do you know what you get in the box is the same as what was
> shipped from the factory?  Or was it just re-sealed and put back
> on the shelf with an altered configuration?

1. Buy a linksys box off the shelf from radio shack or wherever [factory 
sealed]

2. Download the latest firmware and/or its source code from 
ftp.linksys.com, or the wifi-box.net site.

3. Build it yourself

or

4. As these two I mentioned (sveasoft / wifi-box) are open source, trust 
the developer community to some extent when you download firmware from 
their site.

	srs

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