[RIPE Atlas Ambassadors] power supplies

On 2015-12-30 10:18, Dean Pemberton wrote:
> The security angle isn't a silly one.
> There was a talk at Kiwicon recently (no video or presso unfortunately)
> which detailed what you could do to a server if you were a malicious USB
> device. 
> 
> https://www.kiwicon.org/the-con/talks/#e197
> 
> Not that the ATLAS probe is malicious, but does RIPE certify their entire
> supply chain?
> 
> Dean

We don't "certify their entire supply chain" -- that's quite impossible for
anyone and anything, really. The combination of off-the-shelf hardware and
our own firmware (instead of just patching whatever is on the device when we
get it) is sufficient against most adversaries. Hopefully :-)

Robert