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I love my RT-AC router and I do not use Ai Cloud and I have FTP turned off. I check all the time. People that buy $200+ routers should be the ones to turn thing

• pixl97 13y ago
  >People that buy $200+ routers should be the ones to turn things off. The price of an object says nothing about the cluefullness or cluelessness of the end user. A tech illiterate soccer mom could easily buy one of these because their child told them they need 'extreme performance' to play BF4. Releasing products with poor security, then not fixing it when released to the public is unacceptable in this day and age.
  • baldfat 13y ago
    Key word is "Should"
  • vacri 13y ago
    A tech naif that doesn't know how to turn off a service is certainly not going to be reflashing a wifi AP.
    • pixl97 13y ago
      That's why you don't release terrible security flaws in the first place. The second problem of the illiterate flashing ones router is more difficult, but not completely impossible to deal with. It's not optimal, but you could force redirect all http connections to the router from inside the network to a page where the user has to log in and click flash for the router to download and update the flash itself. Auto-updates are possible, but not without risk either.