[tor-relays] Recommendation for DUMB COMPUTING devices for Tor Relays

Lucas Werkmeister mail at lucaswerkmeister.de
Fri Oct 21 13:25:36 UTC 2016


Regardless of whether the Pi’s firmware can actually be updated or not –
it’s probably not good for diversity to run the whole Tor network on a
single kind of device: we don’t want every relay in the network to be
compromised when a single flaw on the Pi is found. Performance might
also suffer, though I hear it’s gotten better with the Pi 3.

For stateless x86 hardware, this paper is very interesting: Joanna
Rutkowska, State considered harmful – A proposal for a stateless laptop.
http://blog.invisiblethings.org/papers/2015/state_harmful.pdf


On 21.10.2016 14:24, Petrusko wrote:
> I can confirm "rpi-update" usually works fine to update firmware.
>
> But don't forget to run this command sometimes by hand, no auto-update
> during the system /apt-get upgrade/
>
>> firmware of RPi can be changed: https://github.com/Hexxeh/rpi-update /
>> https://github.com/Hexxeh/rpi-firmware
>>
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