[atlas] Reasons to celebrate - passed 1K active probes :)

On 12/23/11 10:17 , Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:
> I hope that, in 2012, we'll celebrate the release of the source code, 
> with instructions on how to build your own probe and/or to add 
> measurements. 
Looking at it purely from a technical point of view, releasing the 
source code should be doable. Of course it will require time to clean it 
up a bit and make it run on a generic Linux system instead of just on 
Lantronix modules.

But I have no idea how we could allow probes with unknown firmware 
connect to the atlas infrastructure. At moment we can rely on the probes 
to faithfully report what they see. And we know exactly what software 
the probes are running.

When probes can run arbitrary firmware, analyzing the results may become 
much harder.