http://www.theregist...te_that_firmware/
Have a Linksys router? Now's a good time to update that firmware
Reports point to exploits of vulnerabilities in two models
By Shaun Nichols, 13th February 2014
And a suggestion from someone who has run his business on Linux for donkeys' years; what think of it??
Maybe that is why I have been using DD-WRT for the last several
years on my Linksys routers?
Seriously, if you use the right Linksys router, there are a host
of open source alternatives to the factory software... all of which
greatly enhance the security and functionality of the router.
Notable examples are DD-WRT, OpenWRT, Tomato, ...
-Chuck xxxxx
OBTW, the lawsuit forcing Cisco to release the modifications it
made to the open source linux software they were selling with
their Linksys routers was one of the greatest wins for open source
freedom.
Linksys/Cisco, showed their disdane for the opensource community
by immediately going to a VxWare based firmware in their routers.
It saved them a few pennies in hardware costs, at the cost of
a per router royalty agreement...
That last chain-of-evidence sorta makes for wanting to eschew All their products though--dunnit?
What's wrong with a somewhat-trumpeted boycott?
(Thus-far.. I have successfully evaded all the n+1 Gotchas of networking via eschewing same; maybe re Netflix etc. later, though
--if ever I can find a workaround for the Comcast monopoly-Beast--who just ate another competitor.
What does it take to get the FCC et al to say! MONOPOLY-in-all-2014-mass-meeja?):
[NYT] Comcast Set to Acquire Time Warner Cable for $44 Billion
Have a Nice (Corporate-controlled) Day, serfs.