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

[Heinz N]

> dd-wrt FTW

>From the slashdot commets:

"At least 3 of the routers affected (EA3500, EA4500, E4200v2) are using
Marvell chipsets. Not sure about the EA2700. Which means that, unless
someone decides to add chipset support, DD-WRT doesn't run on these
routers."

And if you have to use dd-wrt, then buy a super cheap router that has 
dd-wrt support and don't waste your money with the expensive name brand 
that is feeding all your internet traffic to some US government agency.

There are the major issues:

(1) You no longer control the hardware that YOU bought and own

(2) They can fork all your traffic to some foreign nation state where you
     are considered an "alien" and where you have no rights. You have NO
     privacy.

(3) YOU .... yes YOU!!! are paying for all of this through the purchase of
     the traitorous hardware and the TCP/IP bandwidth YOU are gifting them

No corporate in their right mind would allow such sh*t into their network.

Regards
Heinz N.

> 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-fir
>       mware-allows-web-history-tracking
>
>       and
> 
> http://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/vptu9/linksys_just_pushed_and_installed_wi
>       thout_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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