On 5/1/23 21:28, Peter Naulls wrote:
For those of you who track the small but very real OpenWrt job market,
you may have seen there's a creep into Defense/Clearance jobs. Here's
but one example:
https://careers-bluehalo.icims.com/jobs/3844/job
As a self-declared pacifist (and anyway, dual citizen which would limit my
ability to get clearance), this is most certainly not for me, but I
thought it should be something you guys might want to be aware of.
I check from time to time which companies in the US are looking for
OpenWrt experts [0] to get an overview who is using it. About 10% to 30%
of these job offers require clearance. It looks like the US military and
US intelligence community is using OpenWrt. Once I saw a job offer where
someone was looking for a person who has experience in writing exploits
for OpenWrt and DD-WRT in the Washington, D.C. area, this scared me a
bit, normally I do not have the NSA in my thread model. Someone from BAE
Systems (largest defence contractor in Europe) was also contacting us at
OpenWrt some years ago with questions about the license.
I hope that these companies use OpenWrt mostly to provide Internet
access for their soldiers and it is not part of any real weapon system.
As OpenWrt is now used by many vendors I think the intelligence agencies
around the world are interested in exploits fro OpenWrt.
I heard a rumor some years ago that one of the biggest OpenWrt
installation was at the fence between the US and Mexico, but I have no
prove that this is true.
The GPL and the other licenses used by OpenWrt do not prevent the usage
by any military or intelligence agency. OpenWrt does not do a background
check on external contributors. We have contributions from people from
many countries the US does not like.
Hauke
[0]: https://www.indeed.com/jobs?q=openwrt&l=
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