Cisco/Linksys all up in your business...

kevozzkevozz Member Posts: 305 ■■■□□□□□□□
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Interesting read.

Cisco locks customers out of their own routers, only lets them back in if they agree to being spied upon and monetized - Boing Boing

Cisco’s cloud vision: Mandatory, monetized, and killed at their discretion | ExtremeTech
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  • WafflesAndRootbeerWafflesAndRootbeer Member Posts: 555
    What the heck....?! Something like this should be all over the place and this is the first I hear of it?!
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  • AldurAldur Member Posts: 1,460
    wow, that's pretty underhanded
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  • HypntickHypntick Member Posts: 1,451 ■■■■■■□□□□
    Heard this on the ISD podcast, pretty crappy move on their part. At the very least set it as an opt-in.
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  • higherhohigherho Member Posts: 882
    This stuff should be taken to court. Seriously, you spend money on the product the product is yours to do whatever you want. However, if you sign up for a service (such as the cloud) then I can see them being a bit stricter. This stuff is getting a little out of hand.
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  • WafflesAndRootbeerWafflesAndRootbeer Member Posts: 555
    I guess rolling your own router or gateway server is looking better by the month.
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  • chaser7783chaser7783 Member Posts: 154
    kevozz wrote: »
    Interesting read.

    Cisco locks customers out of their own routers, only lets them back in if they agree to being spied upon and monetized - Boing Boing

    Cisco’s cloud vision: Mandatory, monetized, and killed at their discretion | ExtremeTech

    Mentioned it here last week. http://www.techexams.net/forums/off-topic/79091-cisco-connect-cloud-your-linksys-routers.html
    This has been known for about two weeks now.
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  • DevilryDevilry Member Posts: 668
    Now that is just creepy..
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  • QordQord Member Posts: 632 ■■■■□□□□□□
    Just another reason to move over to ddwrt or tomato.
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  • petedudepetedude Member Posts: 1,510
    Qord wrote: »
    Just another reason to move over to ddwrt or tomato.

    Or set up a PC as a router. :D
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  • RoguetadhgRoguetadhg Member Posts: 2,489 ■■■■■■■■□□
    No more pr0n. The internet is based off small pr0n mail going through the small holes in the wires we plug into our computers!
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  • kevozzkevozz Member Posts: 305 ■■■□□□□□□□
    chaser7783 wrote: »
    Mentioned it here last week. http://www.techexams.net/forums/off-topic/79091-cisco-connect-cloud-your-linksys-routers.html
    This has been known for about two weeks now.

    I figured it was. Every search term I tried with Cisco came back with too many related terms message so I just posted it.

    Next time BUMP IT!
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  • kevozzkevozz Member Posts: 305 ■■■□□□□□□□
    petedude wrote: »
    Or set up a PC as a router. :D

    Are you currently doing this? What are your suggestions?
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  • elderkaielderkai Member Posts: 279
    ESR made a post about it today.

    Cisco provides a lesson

    Ugly stuff. If I can't install DD-WRT or Tomato on a router for my next purchase, I'm not going to get it.
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  • WafflesAndRootbeerWafflesAndRootbeer Member Posts: 555
    kevozz wrote: »
    Are you currently doing this? What are your suggestions?

    You find an ass-kicking mini-itx board and case, preferably low-power netbook/nettop CPU/APU, and roll it together with some Linux and you have yourself a home gateway router/server. They have server boards that are ideal for it.
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  • J_86J_86 Member Posts: 262 ■■□□□□□□□□
    I use Smoothwall, have been for years

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  • MAC_AddyMAC_Addy Member Posts: 1,740 ■■■■□□□□□□
    Like Qord said; another reason to use DD-WRT or tomato. I haven't personally used tomato, but I run DD-WRT at home so that things like this won't ever happen. Though, most ISP's can monitor your outgoing traffic.
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  • onesaintonesaint Member Posts: 801
    +1 for DD-WRT

    For the outgoing traffic monitoring, I noticed the other day that TWC was monitoring my search requests and offering "search help" when a url/search term wasn't found. Essentially, they are monitoring all of my traffic so they can offer me a "service." Keep your service. I'm proxying through a VPS from now on.
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  • PristonPriston Member Posts: 999 ■■■■□□□□□□
    I've got the EA4500 and this didn't happen to me. I'm guessing this only happened to the people who used the software CD that comes with the router?

    Also
    Cisco Connect Cloud No Longer Default Setting For Routers - Technology News - redOrbit
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