Recent Thoughts About The Edge of My Network
In recent weeks I’ve been accumulating some thoughts about the edge of networks, and the edge of my home office network in particular.
This all started last month where there was an Ars Technica article describing how someone found a backdoor that allowed an evil-doer to gain admin access to a common consumer combination DSL Modem/router/Wifi AP. The author initially proved the exploit by hacking his Linksys WAG200G wireless gateway.
The article describes how he published the script used to run the exploit. That allowed others to try the exploit against various makes/models of consumer hardware. It thus came to light that the same trick works against various products from Linksys and Netgear, amongst others.
It’s been a while since the matter of lighting for video calling has been an issue around here. In general I’ve been pretty happy with the 
While it’s true that I live in Texas where football is elevated in status beyond almost everything else, in this case the “huddle” is not about football.