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Looks like most home router manufacturers are mindlessly plugging modules from various vendors to their devices' firmware, to add features. Are there manufactu
by listic 11y ago
Looks like most home router manufacturers are mindlessly plugging modules from various vendors to their devices' firmware, to add features.
Are there manufacturers or product lines that are safe(r) from such approach? Are alternative firmware such as OperWRT or independent open-source firmwares (m0n0wall, pfSense, OPNsense) better in this regard?
- redwards510 11y agopFSense and OpenWRT (I have no experience in the others) are safer in that a) when issues are discovered, patches are made quickly and upgrading is simple and b) you can select only the services you want running, thereby reducing your attack surface.
- mzs 11y agoLinksys has been mostly pretty good and yes the openwrt and dd-wrt software is better.