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Is it just me who finds auto upgrade on a router very scary? I mean, I get it, ordinary ppl wouldn't upgrade otherwise but still the security / surveillance asp
by chx 11y ago
Is it just me who finds auto upgrade on a router very scary? I mean, I get it, ordinary ppl wouldn't upgrade otherwise but still the security / surveillance aspects are frightening.
- simoncion 11y agoDo you take the time to reverse engineer and fully understand both the original firmware shipped with and every subsequent update that is issued for your home networking equipment? If you don't, then you only stand to benefit from a router that silently auto-updates from software delivered by a company that has really good OPSEC. As an aside: If you don't encrypt your traffic, any device on the path between you and your traffic's destination can read your traffic. If you're not concerned about that, then you should be, as it's a much larger -and ongoing- threat to privacy.
- chx 11y agoHuh, I use OpenWRT and hope there's not much left of the originals. I use redsocks on my laptop to direct my traffic into an OpenSSH provided SOCKS5 proxy terminating on my own server in a German data centre. This should eliminate some snooping.