Re: Perhaps firewalls can help to prevent leakage
You are right in the sense that nothing is trust worthy in a world where nothing can be trusted.
The raspberry Pi shows that it is possible to build quite capable firewalls for little cost.
Reading the PDF shows how determined and aggressive the attackers are, what is needed is that the manufacturers in the field selling these products, which are in hindsight sensitive to being hacked, show the same determination to prevent this from happening. The PDF also shows a potential market for Kaspersky and the likes, they could develop such a firewall product, linked to databases, it would not prevent new viruses, but perhaps most of the data leaks they cause. This is not about MS or Linux, it is about raising the bar, the people doing this are the elite in IT, fighting them makes no sense, there will always be flaws in complex systems that they will exploit.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
