Sensor Station Security

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Does anyone have any guidance on changing the CTT Sensor Station to use HTTPS and some form of authentication? We finally got the university to give us a wired connection but they put us on an unsecured network.

What I’m wondering is how to change the device to use HTTPS over port 443 instead of HTTP over port 80 and implement my own authentication page on the device website. Right now it is on a network with students and the default setup lets anyone who navigates to the device delete data and reboot the device and upload files. I have locked it down somewhat with UFW firewall but I’m still curious about the above question.

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Why not just go ahead and set it up with port 80 and see if your students are respectful of science experiments. Since there is no money involved it should not attract hackers and you may find its a non-issue.

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I’m a graduate student and this is for my graduate research project. Making sure the data isn’t tampered with (right now it is completely open for anyone to upload or delete any data) definitely makes this an issue.