1 (edited by NigelS 2010-09-22 19:10:13)

Topic: The need for privacy - chumby Ind advice please

Hi Chumby Ind (aka Duane),
    I want to ask about privacy - I have spent the last couple of years working in the PCI DSS area which has given me a hightened sensnse of insecurity (I wear a tinfoil hat to stop alien attack also smile).

Anyhow this leads me to consider that as a utility device the Chumby provides some attack vectors on to my home network.

I would like to mittigate the risks by proxying my connection to chumby.com with a third party proxy e.g. a proxy server for example resident in the USA.

I am uncertain though if there is any support for a proxy on the chumby e.g. is there a file I could populate with the proxy address, would chumby.com have a fit etc.

Can you provide some feedback please on native chumby capability or any third party add on software that might assist me with my problem. 

cheers

Nigel

PS - as an aside your probabaly not aware that culturally Australian's are more paranoid than Americans (thats cos you guys are the threat smile ) and so i would probabaly look to personally sharing my finding with my fellows down under types.

smile smile smile

Re: The need for privacy - chumby Ind advice please

How do you think we provide a vector? If there's something specific you know about, then we should certainly close it.  We care about security.

You should be able to set up an HTTP proxy by setting the standard environment variables.

Re: The need for privacy - chumby Ind advice please

Duane wrote:

How do you think we provide a vector? If there's something specific you know about, then we should certainly close it.  We care about security.

You should be able to set up an HTTP proxy by setting the standard environment variables.

Duane,
   thanks for the reply - sorry that was meant to be a little tongue in cheek - key point is proxy - sorry I am not much of a Unix guy - can you advise of or point to the standard variables please.


cheers

Nigel smile smile smile

Re: The need for privacy - chumby Ind advice please

You should be able to do this by using a debugchumby file with:

#!/bin/sh
export http_proxy=http://<Proxy_Username>:<Proxy_Password>@<Proxy_UrlOrIp>:<Proxy_Port>

...filling in and/or removing the values as appropriate.

Re: The need for privacy - chumby Ind advice please

Duane wrote:

You should be able to do this by using a debugchumby file with:

#!/bin/sh
export http_proxy=http://<Proxy_Username>:<Proxy_Password>@<Proxy_UrlOrIp>:<Proxy_Port>

...filling in and/or removing the values as appropriate.

Thanks smile smile smile