JULY
20, 2014 | BY PETER ECKERSLEY AND JACOB
HOFFMAN-ANDREWS AND RANGA KRISHNAN
Calling All Hackers: Help Us Build an Open Wireless
Router
EFF is releasing an experimental hacker alpha
release of wireless router software specifically
designed to support secure, shareable Open Wireless
networks. We will be officially launching the Open
Wireless Router today at the HOPE X (Hackers on
Planet Earth) conference in New York City, aiming to
bring aboard members of the hacker community. This
release is a work in progress and is intended only
for developers and people willing to deal with the
bleeding edge.
The software aims to do several things that existing
routers don't do well—or don't do at all. We are
beginning a journey that we hope will attract
supporters and fellow travelers to help reach the
following goals:1
Allow small business and home users to easily enable
an open network, so guests and passersby can get an
Internet connection if they need one, while keeping
a password-locked WPA2 network for themselves and
their friends or coworkers.
Let you share a bounded portion of your bandwidth on
the open network, so guest users cannot slow down
your Internet connection or use a large portion of
your monthly quota.2
Provide state-of-the-art network queuing, so most
users can expect an improved Internet
experience—especially with latency-sensitive
applications—compared to what commonly available
consumer grade routers are delivering today.
Offer a minimalist, secure, and elegant Web user
interface to set up and configure the router.
Advanced, non-minimalist administrative options are
accessible by SSH.
Advance the state of the art in consumer Wi-Fi
router security and begin turning back the growing
tide of attacks against them. Most or all existing
router software is full of XSS and CSRF
vulnerabilities, and we want to change that.
Include a secure software auto-update mechanism. In
addition to using HTTPS, firmware signatures and
metadata are fetched via Tor to make targeted update
attacks very difficult.
continua qui
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/07/building-open-wireless-router