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Any suggestions for a good router that is immune from this nonsense?
by oprah2018 8y ago
Any suggestions for a good router that is immune from this nonsense?
- Scoundreller 8y agoAs in another post, I’d suggest buying any router, taking it apart, identifying the flash chip, find the write-enable line in the data-sheet and MITM that line with a flip switch to block updates at all times.
- rorosaurus 8y agoThat's actually a really good idea! I would love to see this built-in to future router models after something widespread like this. It's fairly reasonable to force users to be physically present to update. Plus, you could force them to flip the switch back by not working until the write-enable line is disconnected again.
- Scoundreller 8y agoBIOS updates used to be like that. You would have to switch a jumper to do the update. Then they got rid of that, even though most people that bothered with BIOS updates could be directed to switch a jumper around...
- Johnny555 8y agoIt could have the unintended side effect of making people even less likely to upgrade firmware.
- oprah2018 8y agoAin't nobody got time for that.
- jacob019 8y agoBuy a small cheap computer with two ethernet ports and run debian.
- spydum 8y agoAnd most importantly: keep it updated. About the only thing I would trust without updates is a bsd box. And even that, may eventually fall victim.
- fungi 8y agohttps://openwrt.org/ https://openwrt.org/
- sekh60 8y agoYou could build your own with pfSense.
- oprah2018 8y agoWhat if you are too busy for that?
- MikusR 8y agoAn updated one, with sane defaults.