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Measuring the Security of IoT Devices

Schneier on Security

Data Collected: 22 Vendors 1,294 Products 4,956 Firmware versions 3,333,411 Binaries analyzed Date range of data: 2003-03-24 to 2019-01-24 (varies by vendor, most up to 2018 releases). [.]. They look at the actual firmware. MIPS is both the most common CPU architecture and least hardened on average.

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Kali Linux 2024.4 Release (Python 3.12, Goodbye i386, Raspberry Pi Imager & Kali NetHunter)

Kali Linux

History lesson: i386 is a 32-bit CPU architecture, maybe more widely known by the name x86. It was the CPU architecture of the first generations of Intel Pentium, AMD K6, and Athlon. Starting in 2003, a 64-bit version of the x86 architecture appeared, usually named x86-64 (or amd64 in Debian-based Linux distributions).