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

[McDonald Richards]

You do realise most ISPs maintain the ability to fork your data anyway as part of their lawful intercept requirements right?

This just looks like managed CPE to me, at a lower price point. 

You don't have admin on your cable modem or Foxtel box :)

</tinfoil hat>

Macca


On 30/06/2012, at 11:56 AM, 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
> 
> and
> 
> 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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