Yoggie shows off tiny firewalls

YOU MIGHT REMEMBER Yoggie as the company that brought you a firewall on a memory stick sized PC. This CES, they have two new models and a new form factor, an ExpressCard device.

The two models are called the Gatekeeper Pico and Card, with the Pico being USB and the Card is obviously an ExpressCard. It is the same ARM based PC running Linux as the original Yoggie, but this one adds TOR routing capabilities. You can update some of the older ones to the new software as well.

HyPC is a little more secure than the Gatekeeper, as is the fashion nowadays, it basically boots into a secure browser, not into the host PC's OS. This allows you to surf using only the resources of the stick itself, nothing to hack on the box.

The HyPC runs a PXA270 CPU and has 128M of SDRAM and 128M of flash storage for the Pico. Card versions run a Freescale IMX32 with DDR2 instead of SDRAM. On top of this, the SDK, called OpenFirewall is public, so you can code against the computer until you get bored.

It looks like Yoggie has a nice update to their classic device here, along with a solid second version. With more of PCs moving to the cloud, this could be all you need to carry around in the near future. µ