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TechieTwo It's been known for quite awhile that TP-Link and most other brands of consumer grade routers are very insecure and dangerous. Reply
Lieutenant Barclay Florida is a total clown state and probably just as corrupt as anywhere in China. Reply
USAFRet TechieTwo said: It's been known for quite awhile that TP-Link and most other brands of consumer grade routers are very insecure and dangerous. OK, so which consumer level routers are 'secure'? Reply
Moonstick2 Here's the rhetoric of the opener of the Florida complaint: What the consumer says to the internet comes out of the router’s mouth, and what the internet says back goes through the router’s ears. If compromised, it can whisper lies in both directions, Truly inspired. Never could more powerful words be spoken from anyone's ears. The content of the complaint is basically: They're Chinese. They use Chinese components. They've had some CVEs. They don't update old routers. Er…. That's it!The bulk of the complaint amounts to claiming that it is a deceptive and unfair practice to describe your product as secure if any of your products have ever had a CVE, especially if one was ever exploited by a Chinese state actor. Reply
coolitic TechieTwo said: It's been known for quite awhile that TP-Link and most other brands of consumer grade routers are very insecure and dangerous. You'd think that something as simple in function as a router would be easy to secure (hint: they are, as open-source options manage just fine). Combine that w/ the fact that routers have been widely exploited for so long, and it really just comes off as super negligent. Reply
loveday.ben coolitic said: You'd think that something as simple in function as a router would be easy to secure (hint: they are, as open-source options manage just fine). Combine that w/ the fact that routers have been widely exploited for so long, and it really just comes off as super negligent. Are you for real? Honestly this lawsuit is garbage and should justify them suing every other US company for the same thing. No surprises it's from Florida though. Reply
bill001g Do we really want a politicians and lawyers making technical decisions. Likely is they are insecure like almost every other router. The one that he complains about is the router does automatically update. This guy must be a idiot and have his assistant key in his email and not use a computer. Almost everyone I know have had microsoft bust something when they force updates. The best solution is make very simple routers that only do NAT. Less features less code to hack. Make then open source like asus does for some of their models. Reply
das_stig USAFRet said: OK, so which consumer level routers are 'secure'? None, they are all too open for ease of use of consumers. You need hardware running something like OPNSense that by design is as secure as they can make it, open code so people can see what is going on and verify nothing dodgy is happening and fix bugs asap. problem is OPNSense is not consumer friendly to configure, maybe they could remove all the features that nobody needs and produce a Lite version ? Reply
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