[ale] OT critical vulnerabilities in ASUS routers

[Charles Shapiro]

Oh fer Pete's sake.  It took me less than an hour to put decent Open-Source
firmware on my device and get it properly configured.  The 3rd-party stuff
was way better laid out and easier to understand than the garbaggio that
Asus had on there.  This is just part of your responsibility when you
connect to the internetz.

-- CHS



On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 1:57 PM, Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 1:36 PM, Ron Frazier (ALE)
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>> the billion dollar manufacturers can't / won't get it right and keep the
>> device updated.
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> This will ALWAYS be an issue with embedded OS systems. There is NO
> solution other than to reflash a new embedded OS onto it. At least there
> are options like tomato and other DDWRT derivatives.  Think about the poor
> schlub who has no skillz and a router that lets in Mr NotNiceGuy.
>
> The alternative is to buy a new gizmo. That's the plan from the company
> (although many do update firmware but only provide info on flashing from a
> windblows platform) as it sells another gizmo.
>
> Ah the curse of capitalism in manufacturing: must make it good enough to
> sell and bad enough that it will be replaced often but not so bad that
> buyers hate you and find alternatives.
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