Own a Cisco modem or wireless gateway? It might be owned by someone else, too A number of Cisco home network gateways have a security bug that allows attackers to hijack the devices remotely. A firmware update to close the hole is being rolled out to ISPs to deploy. The networking giant said that certain Wireless Home Gateway products are vulnerable to a remote-code execution attack, which is triggered …
The problem with tyranical governments is that when you treat every one as a criminal, the population is by default going to cross the line. I can see the anarchists spoken about on here:
http://www.wired.com/2014/07/inside-dark-wallet/?mbid=nl_wired_07216014
taking over the world.
The problem is not how bad code is and why monopolies take so long to put their products right; it is that those taking advantage of the problems are not just crooks, they are secret policemen. And if there is no law against them, the only alternative is to be an outlaw. I won't be around when the generation of people being spied on from the cradle will grow up learning to deal with it.
We know what happened in Russia when everybody was a spy: Once the government changes, gangsterism becomes rife. Honest citizens just don't know what to do to get away with a little criminality. They have consciences. Take that away and hell comes to dinner.
Hopefully I will be wrong about this but stupid has a way of mastering everything it touches.
Wow, a story about a security hole in CISCO routers, and you post a diatribe about The Man?!?! Seriously, how did you make that leap? Do you think The Man is hiding in your modem?
As for your link to the Wired story, again, what has that to do with the article? Two rather sad dropouts that 'want to change the World', one already a laughingstock for the tragic 'Liberator' printed gun? You really think cretins like that are going to 'take over'? Their 'Silk Road 3.0' will be taken down by the authorities in just as short order as it's predecessors. Peer-to-peer will make zero difference as the authorities will merely shift from looking for the centralised server to blocking the service at the ISPs. All those morons are doing is accelerating us towards a completely regulated Internet.
These are DOCSIS devices. DOCSIS was designed from the beginning for the CPE device to be managed by the provider, and *unmanageable* by the customer. This applies to all DOCSIS devices, not just Cisco. Firmware upgrades are initiated by the provider when the device is booted. So there is nothing a customer can do but wait for the provider to push out the updated firmware.
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