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Originally Posted by Milambar
EA4500 really?
Ostrich, head, sand springs to mind.
Linksys/Cisco pushed out a firmware for the EA4500 that forced you to use their "connect cloud" to administer your hardware, and if you read the original ToS of the Connect Cloud, some have said that you were granting them permission to monitor your browsing habits for targetted marketing, and to cut you off, permanently from your own router if you used it for anything they didn't approve. I can't say if thats true or not, I've not read their ToS.
Now granted, when all the tech news websites exploded with angry commentards over this, they backed down over this and gave people a way to restore the old firmware restoring the "non-cloud" administration process. They also claimed the terms of service was just standard boilerplate (yeah, right).
Even though they reverted the changes to the EA4500, that doesn't change the fact that they made the changes to begin with. Also people are pointing out that there are clauses in their new "boiletplate" terms of service that allows them to push their "cloud connect" service out again at any time.
As a result, I'd be very leery of trusting _anything_ they made now.
Have a read: http://www.computerworld.com/s/artic...ers_some_users |
That’s what I like about all you guys, always something interesting to learn. Good article and I will take the advice given to turn off firmware option to “Upgrade Automatically”.
The LAN interface allowed me to turn off this feature. Thanks.
Mathias warned against allowing automatic firmware or software upgrades.
"If someone hacks that interface, they can load any firmware they want into your router," he said. Some users complained that when they discovered the problem and tried to turn off automatic firmware updates, they couldn't. The rollback instructions posted Friday included directions for turning off that setting.