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True, but I think it's worth comparing it to other utilities in your home - what if your electric company could make all your lightbulbs 20% dimmer without noti
by blacksmith_tb 7y ago
True, but I think it's worth comparing it to other utilities in your home - what if your electric company could make all your lightbulbs 20% dimmer without notice? Or if your water heater was remotely administered? ISPs, like mobile telcos, like to claim they must have control over your hardware "for security" but I think the most charitable interpretation is that it's to make their customer service dept. sweat less (more nefarious possibilities exist, of course).
- CJefferson 7y agoThe difference is that non-updated routers can cause global problems. At the very least as an ISP I'd want to say you can look after updates yourself, but we will disable your access to the internet (other than to get the update from us) whenever we try to push an update to you and you reject it.
- ProZsolt 7y agoThis is why I like separate modems, so there is a clear border between you and the ISP. Sadly currently most of the providers only give you AIOs.