On 16 January 2014 14:38, Max Mehl <[email protected]> wrote: > Sorry to ask but in which country did Sky Broadband do this? As far as I know, > Sky operates in many european countries.
I'm talking about the UK here. In the UK, BT also sell a completely-supported but utterly locked modem. I have one here, a BT HomeHub 3. It's quite a nice router, and I'd like to jailbreak it ... > My personal opinion is that it's not basically bad that ISPs give routers by > default to their customers. Of course, only one model makes maintainability > easier and some customers do not even want to choose a router theirselves. But > some people do, and imagine the situation that the vendor of your router is > suspected to install backdoors for western intelligence agencies - and you > cannot switch the hard- or firmware. Is this a nightmare only for me? I'm not sure that's the most likely threat model - the NSA cracks catalogue lists cracks for generic Huawei modems. So we come to the problem of embedded systems that don't get security updates. - d. _______________________________________________ Discussion mailing list [email protected] https://mail.fsfeurope.org/mailman/listinfo/discussion
