[AusNOG] "All your router devices are belong to us"

[thelionroars]

dd-wrt FTW

On 30 June 2012 11:56, Heinz N <ausnog at equisoft.com.au> wrote:

> I just saw this on slashdot. Get the tin foil hats out.
>
> http://tech.slashdot.org/**story/12/06/29/1425210/cisco-**
> pushing-cloud-connect-router-**firmware-allows-web-history-**tracking<http://tech.slashdot.org/story/12/06/29/1425210/cisco-pushing-cloud-connect-router-firmware-allows-web-history-tracking>
>
> and
>
> http://www.reddit.com/r/**technology/comments/vptu9/**
> linksys_just_pushed_and_**installed_without_my<http://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/vptu9/linksys_just_pushed_and_installed_without_my>
>
> Seems CISCO is disallowing local admin to their low end home/SOHO routers.
> Admin can apparently now only be done through their cloud (since when does
> a cloud ever fail!!?)...... Their conditions also state that they can
> monitor your traffic as they wish (and the "patriot act" NSA, FBI etc etc).
> No telling what the bandwidth implications of this are: and who will pay
> for the extra unauthorised traffic?
>
> You may want to rethink your equipment for SOHO clients.
>
> The whole issue with Telstra tracking HTTP traffic is just the start. How
> long before your new "trusted computing" motherboard reflashes itself and
> starts reporting all your stuff to Redmond (or China).
>
> I am happy to stick with my dumb bridged modem talking to a Linux router
> running iptables. Very cheap and with all the functionality of the most
> expensive routers and it doesn't report to some mothership cloud.
>
> Heinz N.
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