Netgear Routers Hailed as Dangerous – Here are some alternatives worth considering
CERT, a US Federal government agency tasked with cyber-security research, has issued an alert advising consumers to stop using various models of Netgear routers. These devices are subject to a trivially simple command injection exploit. Ars Technica has a nice overview of the matter.
Normally I’d have literally nothing to say about this, since it simply doesn’t impact us. Wanna know why it doesn’t impact us?
We don’t use a consumer router that runs closed source firmware. We don’t think that you should either. In fact, you probably shouldn’t let your friends and family use that junk either.
Perhaps this holiday season, and all of the travelling & visiting that goes along with it, presents an opportunity to help someone unsuspecting secure their home network.
Until very recently I was seriously committed to Google’s Nexus line of devices. From the