Comment on DOJ quietly removed Russian malware from routers in US homes and businesses

• rdyoung@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  This is why I run my own router. I’m sure my cable modem has a way in but then you’d have to get past my router.

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  • 520@kbin.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Ditto. I went one step further and put OpenWRT on mine.

    Messed up thing is, some ISPs make it an absolute bitch to make this work.

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    • aStonedSanta@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yup. I used to think it was malicious by the ISPs but really it’s just all the end technology is kinda A mess for them to have control of the network for you. Which I’m gonna a be honest 99.9% of customers NEED. lol

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      • histic@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        agreed my local area isp switched to calix for most of our customers and it’s really nice just to have a management interface to all of our customers and be able to fix it without having to roll a truck

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• EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I can’t think of a single ISP that was using old Ubiquity EdgeOS routers as consumer routers.

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  • 520@kbin.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    This thing went out to SMEs too. The smaller ones often aren't much of a step up in terms of knowledge from consumers

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    • EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Ok, once again, it’s not enabled by default. Because that’s generally not how company IT departments even remote manage these things. And the affected devices are the firewalls.

      Remote administration was turned on manually, by the owners of these devices, because they didn’t know what they were doing.

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