[AusNOG] Cisco Pushing 'Cloud Connect' Router Firmware - Allows Web History Tracking

[David Walker]

On 30/06/2012, Burt Mascareigne <burt at prioritycomputer.com.au> wrote:
> saying the avg. user is too stupid to manage their own router is a
> fair point, but,  when do you stop?

Introducing an extremely fragile model doesn't seem like it could be
an improvement on that.
There's no expectation that users will suddenly become proficient at
firewalls and mitigate all the downsides with this scheme.
Large corporations consistently demonstrate great ability to
centralize consumer data ...