security by obscurity?
you know, with a JTAG adapter and a bit of knowledge, one can read the onboard flash from those plugs too.
so, probably a better approach is to have a system which doesn't expose your data when the disk is compromised. The simplest example is SSH with public key authentication and authentication forwarding (-A flag).






>________________________________
> From: Silvan Gebhardt <gebhardt@open...>
>To: swinog@list...
>Sent: Friday, June 1, 2012 10:28 PM
>Subject: Re: [swinog] hosting for 1 powersupply with lan port
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>Hello Stanislav and List
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>There are two reasons why I want this plug PC:
>
>
>1) security through obscurity. if someone by whatever means take
    this thing apart - an alix is very easy to dump the content off it.
    a VPS is even worse.
>
>2) such a Plug PC has at least double the ram an alix has, the
    moment you want to also run mutt on it it starts to become a bit
    relevant, with a few dozend openvpn client connections as well.... I
    do run a lot of Alixes globally already, I do know the whole box
    quite good.
>
>I'd love to keep this box in switzerland as well ;)
>
>Thanks for the input, mosh will be a topic I will update the ML if
    the interest is there - I'm looking forward to see how it behaves on
    sat connections etc.
>
>Silvan
>
>Am 01.06.2012 10:36, schrieb Stanislav Sinyagin:
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>>
>>but actually for your purpose, I would just buy the cheapest VPS at http://www.buildyourvps.com/
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>>I've got one for about $35 a year. The machine (or probably the network) is heavily oversubscribed, but you get a virtual machine on a dedicated IP address.
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>>>________________________________
>>> From: Stanislav Sinyagin <ssinyagin@yaho...>
>>>To: "swinog@swin..." <swinog@swin...>
>>>Sent: Friday, June 1, 2012 10:24 AM
>>>Subject: Re: [swinog] hosting for 1 powersupply with lan port
>>>
>>>
>>>Silvan, I would highly recommend pcengines.ch instead. They are quickly available (usually shipped the next day after ordering) from a Swiss store, and so far they are the cheapest linux boxes that I could find. I'm using them exactly for the same purpose - as ssh jumphosts :)
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>>>http://linux.voyage.hk/  is a flavor of Debian specifically tailored for these boxes. It mounts the root in read-only mode by default, so your CF storage is written only when needed.
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>>>here I put a few related notes in my blog: http://txlab.wordpress.com/tag/voyage-linux/
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>>>>________________________________
>>>> From: Silvan M. Gebhardt <gebhardt@open...>
>>>>To: swinog@swin...
>>>>Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2012 11:10 PM
>>>>Subject: [swinog] hosting for 1 powersupply with lan port
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>Hi Swinogers, 
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>I'm currently thinking about deploying a Sheevaplug or similar with mosh (http://mosh.mit.edu) as a login jumphost since I am several hours in mobile mode every day and I need a space outside of my network to host a *jump host*
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>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>please contact me offlist and offer me housing for something like that: http://www.plugcomputer.eu/
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>All I am taking up is some bandwith (expected bandwith in average probably 1mbit max, half of it for keepalives for outbound vpn tunnels, 
>>>>Power consumption apparently less than 10watts.
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>>>>
>>>>Need v6 and v4 connection, 1 IP each, public, not firewalled, 1 Plug in the power strip
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>>>>Since this is a rather
                                      non-standard thing I'm looking
                                      for, but I need it in a datacenter
                                      outside my infrastructure, I
                                      thought it's best to ask here.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>Btw, for anyone experienced already or looking into mosh, looking forward for exchange here
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>>>>
>>>>Good Evening!
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>Silvan
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