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points by LaurensBER 10 hours ago | 0 comments

I grabbed mine from AliExpress.

It can be a bit of a gamble (the sellers usually don't specify the exact SOC on the description) but given the price you're not taking that much of a risk.

Worst case scenario you end up with a backup 4G dongle.

[–] dataflow 10 hours ago

Oh I see, that sounds like a gamble. Another question if you don't mind - were you worried about security at all? Like what if there's something vulnerable (or worse, backdoored) in there?

[–] LaurensBER 8 hours ago

It's runs a mainline Linux kernel so it's possible to compile everything from source without any issues of you want to be absolutely sure. I haven't done so but I did asked Claude to check for anything suspicious and it did not find anything.

I guess a big advantage of constrained hardware with a minimal surface is that there's not that many places to hide something.

Obviously I would not recommend running this if you're in charge of Cybersecurity for Fort Knox but for a Homelab the risk seems manageable.