[i336_]

I just thought of a bizarre but interesting idea - an i3/i5-capable server motherboard with IPMI, and a rock-solid router running OpenVPN in front of the IPMI port.

Maybe fractionally higher power consumption, and perhaps you'd need a GPU for it, but if both ends have really decent internet, that could very legitimately work.

[pc86]

> a rock-solid router

Make one of these and you'll end up with a lot of money.

[i336_]

Where would be a good place to start? OpenBSD? http://www.skeptech.org/blog/2013/01/13/unscrewed-a-story-ab... Another platform?

It's tricky. You could for example pick seL4, but then you have no router. That could be interpreted as an amazing opportunity to make a new stack, or a feat significantly less interesting and more strenuous than climbing Mt. Everest.

Then on the hardware side, do you pick x86 (complete with firmware that lets you use fallthru to ring -2! \o/), ARM, MIPS, or what? This is a question I've no idea how to answer.

Also, heh, I'm reminded of this:

1. Search Shodan for JAWS/1.0

2. Take one of the results, go to the IP[:port], append "/shell?" and a command, eg "/shell?ls"

3. Try running "whoami"

4. Go back and look at the number of results

5. Visit the IPs normally, and learn that these are DVRs, for security cameras; alternate between dying inside and reattaching your jaw.