Friday, July 6, 2012

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

fucknobigbrother:

Owners of Cisco/Linksys home routers got a nasty shock this week, when their devices automatically downloaded a new operating system, which locked out device owners. After the update, the only way to reconfigure your router was to create an account on Cisco’s “cloud” service, signing up to a service agreement that gives Cisco the right to spy on your Internet use and sell its findings, and also gives them the right to disconnect you (and lock you out of your router) whenever they feel like it.

Posted at 3:02 PM 103 notes Reblogged from lucypaw

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  1. cantabileamor reblogged this from fucknobigbrother and added:
    not selling cisco products at my job anymore, faqqq that
  2. notthatyoucareaboutpolitics reblogged this from fucknobigbrother
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  4. fromthemindofateenagewolf reblogged this from kaernkupthenoise and added:
    OH great. My college uses Cisco products.
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  9. cordelia-w reblogged this from missjessicasmith and added:
    Belkin F5D5231-4 wired-only router ftw. No need to worry about people trying to get into my network wirelessly either :P...
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  11. evbelluche reblogged this from amydentata and added:
    Cisco more like Cis-no
  12. missjessicasmith reblogged this from rachelevation76 and added:
    Linksys WRT54G with Tomato. ftw.
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  22. katt3985 reblogged this from amydentata and added:
    TGI dd-wrt, a cisco E1000 is the very thing that connects this computer to the internet (and no, it was completely...
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    I don’t really believe this, or it has to be in a certain area or something, because this didn’t happen to me or my...
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  34. arkcatox reblogged this from kazecat and added:
    DD-WRT erry day.
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