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That said, they do make a lot of interesting boards over there, for various purposes. There are a lot of interesting NUC variants, NAS motherboards and Pi-like cards.

Any good way to detect if their firmware has been backdoored once you got one in your hands?




> That said, they do make a lot of interesting boards over there, for various purposes. There are a lot of interesting NUC variants, NAS motherboards and Pi-like cards.

This. I recall I bought an Orange Pi Zero 512MB out of AliExpress for about $5. Great deal, but I would definitely not trust it to do anything with private info though.


If you’re concerned just stick in on a VLAN and restrict its access to whatever suits you. I have some crappy home automation stuff I restrict and only allow my devices to communicate with them, no outside access allowed.


If you’re concerned just stick in on a VLAN and restrict its access to whatever suits you. I have some crappy home automation stuff I restrict and only allow my devices to communicate with them, not outside access allowed.




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