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Home and small-office routers is a hot target for security audits. Vulnerabilities and poor security practices is becoming the rule, rather than the exception. Researchers from Universidad Europea de Madrid found 60 distinct flaws in 22 devices. Full details of their research can be read in the Full Disclosure mailing list. Affected brands include D-Link, Belkin, Linksys, Huawei, and others. Among the flaws are at least one backdoor with a hard-coded password. Several routers allow external attackers to delete files on USB storage devices, and others facilitate DDoS attacks. About half of the flaws involve Cross Site Scripting and Cross Site Request Forgery capabilities
Summary: COTS Embedded devices don't have security you can rely on, but why is that so? OpenWRT may be an alternative.
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(Score: 1) by trimtab on Friday June 05 2015, @04:52AM
$85 on Amazon.
Everything appears to work except hardware NAT on OpenWRT.
This is a 1750AC Dual Band 2.4Ghz AND 5Ghz router with dual USB 2.0 ports. There is also lots of left over flash after base OpenWRT is installed for your own use.
As with all OpenWRT installs some knowledge and tweaking will be required to get it all working.
(Score: 2, Funny) by albert on Friday June 05 2015, @05:12AM
Look, everybody knows that TP is for cleaning your rear after you go.
What keeps the sheets from falling apart? Well, look at the perforations between the sheets. There are little bits of paper that span from one sheet to the other, linking them together. Those are the TP links.
Copper links can support gigabit speeds. Glass is even better. Paper??? You're getting 0 bits per second. Nothing.
Instead of getting a TP-LINK, you should roll your own.