Op 29-12-2020 om 11:46 schreef Chris Green:
> A. Dumas  wrote:
>> Chris Green  wrote:
>>> Neither do I need security, the remote system has no personal
>>> information on it at all, the only data to be stolen is temperatures,
>>> voltages and other measurements on my boat.
>>
>> You do need security, to prevent it from being taken over by a
>> botnet/hacker and getting you banned from the network.
>
> To prevent what "from being taken over by a botnet/hacker"?  If they
> break into my boat and have access to the computer there then there's
> absolutely nothing that using a VPN will prevent.

To prevent the Raspberry Pi (or Beagle Bone or whatever) from being
taken over. It isn't about protecting your humidity sensor readings,
it's to prevent it becoming part of a botnet used for sending spam or
DDOS attacks. Admittedly a very low chance, they mainly target always-on
office Windows PC's, but still worth considering, I think, to prevent it
being cut off by the network owner. And, you know, to be a decent netizen.

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