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So, to what device should one "upgrade to"? Would it help much to have a hardware firewall at home or hide the wifi?

• Nextgrid 5y ago
  Use the ISP-provided router as a modem in bridge mode (so it's essentially invisible from the network) and put an enterprise-grade router behind it that you keep up to date and disable any unneeded services (so no web interface, telnet, SSH, etc - at least not on the public-facing interface). This obviously isn't immune to a zero-day, but at this point you'd be more secure than 99% of the rest of the people so any attacker will just move on (why bother breaking into this router when you have an exploit that will net you hundreds of other ones with much less effort?)
  • UweSchmidt 5y ago
    Thanks!