Cisco/Linksys all up in your business...

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WafflesAndRootbeer

What the heck....?! Something like this should be all over the place and this is the first I hear of it?!

Aldur

wow, that's pretty underhanded

Hypntick

Heard this on the ISD podcast, pretty crappy move on their part. At the very least set it as an opt-in.

higherho

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.

WafflesAndRootbeer

I guess rolling your own router or gateway server is looking better by the month.

chaser7783

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.

Devilry

Now that is just creepy..

Qord

Just another reason to move over to ddwrt or tomato.

petedude

Qord wrote: »

Just another reason to move over to ddwrt or tomato.

Or set up a PC as a router.

Roguetadhg

No more pr0n. The internet is based off small pr0n mail going through the small holes in the wires we plug into our computers!

kevozz

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!

kevozz

petedude wrote: »

Or set up a PC as a router.

Are you currently doing this? What are your suggestions?

elderkai

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.

WafflesAndRootbeer

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.

J_86

I use Smoothwall, have been for years

Express Open Source Firewall Project

MAC_Addy

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.

onesaint

+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.

Priston

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?

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