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    netgear routers phoning home!

    shit's getting out of hand when the small fry start acting like micro$oft!!

    http://thehackernews.com/2017/05/net...tics-data.html

    #2
    Re: fuck netgear!

    The article recommends dd-wrt. Other alternatives include

    https://openwrt.org/
    https://lede-project.org/

    I have used openwrt and switched to lede in 2017 as openwrt hasn't released an update in 18 months. I'm using the latest lede release 17.01.1.
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      #3
      Re: fuck netgear!

      DD-WRT to the rescue.
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        #4
        Re: fuck netgear!

        hardly the point - they still sell the product first!

        what's next, the bios on your video-card sending data home?!?!

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          #5
          Re: fuck netgear!

          Originally posted by stj View Post
          hardly the point - they still sell the product first!

          what's next, the bios on your video-card sending data home?!?!
          I concur....but FWIW, I've read tales of some major manufacturer system UEFI BIOS's embedded with firmwares that phone home...

          BTW, for obvious reasons, I did alter the thread title to be a little more on target.
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            #6
            Re: fuck netgear!

            Originally posted by retiredcaps View Post
            The article recommends dd-wrt. Other alternatives include

            https://openwrt.org/
            https://lede-project.org/

            I have used openwrt and switched to lede in 2017 as openwrt hasn't released an update in 18 months. I'm using the latest lede release 17.01.1.
            Don't forget the many Tomato clones. EG: Tomato Shibby http://tomato.groov.pl
            Things I've fixed: anything from semis to crappy Chinese $2 radios, and now an IoT Dildo....

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              #7
              Re: fuck netgear!

              Originally posted by Topcat View Post
              I concur....but FWIW, I've read tales of some major manufacturer system UEFI BIOS's embedded with firmwares that phone home...

              BTW, for obvious reasons, I did alter the thread title to be a little more on target.
              Lenovo by any chance?

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                #8
                Re: fuck netgear!

                Originally posted by stj View Post
                Lenovo by any chance?
                ...and Dell...but the sources I read this from weren't the greatest, and it's been a while back.
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                  #9
                  Re: fuck netgear!

                  Originally posted by Topcat View Post
                  ...and Dell...but the sources I read this from weren't the greatest, and it's been a while back.
                  That's why my T520 has COREBOOT!
                  Things I've fixed: anything from semis to crappy Chinese $2 radios, and now an IoT Dildo....

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                    #10
                    Re: fuck netgear!

                    Originally posted by stj View Post
                    What's next, the bios on your video-card sending data home?!?!
                    Wait, you run Linux with OSS drivers?

                    Because who knows what the vendor driver binaries do... (don't they already send crash info?)

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                      #11
                      Re: fuck netgear!

                      Originally posted by goontron View Post
                      Don't forget the many Tomato clones. EG: Tomato Shibby http://tomato.groov.pl
                      I was wondering about tomato, it too (optionally) sends home data about its install...

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                        #12
                        Re: fuck netgear!

                        Originally posted by eccerr0r View Post
                        Wait, you run Linux with OSS drivers?
                        yes.
                        i may not if it was a modern nvidia card - but it's not.
                        infact it's an amd gpu that is not even supported by the mfr anymore.
                        so i'm safe.

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                          #13
                          Re: fuck netgear!

                          Originally posted by stj View Post
                          yes.
                          i may not if it was a modern nvidia card - but it's not.
                          infact it's an amd gpu that is not even supported by the mfr anymore.
                          so i'm safe.
                          So no windows at all? I figured there's lots of windows only tools around which won't work properly through wine.

                          I finally got rid of fglrx on my main system...for a long time there was no better alternative for graphics performance. Alas even Firefox phones home though hacking it not to is still an option.

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                            #14
                            Re: netgear routers phoning home!

                            i have an old p3 laptop with xp for my eprom programmer.
                            it's never on any network and i move stuff in and out by usb-key.
                            *that* is the ultimate firewall!!

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                              #15
                              Re: fuck netgear!

                              Originally posted by stj View Post
                              hardly the point - they still sell the product first!

                              what's next, the bios on your video-card sending data home?!?!
                              Not too far off... the nVidia Geforce Experience (installed by default with drivers) now requires login before you can use any of its features. Only one reason I can think of for that...

                              And then there's Samsung Magician, the SSD utility for use with Samsung drives, which has supposedly refused to update the firmware on one of their drives because the user didn't opt-in on being spied on.

                              And then there's Samsung (and other) smart TVs...

                              Wave of the future, everyone. The new normal is for everything to assume all our dataz are belong to them.

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