On 04/24/2018 02:38 PM, Russell Senior wrote:
The NPR story is mostly regurgitated press release from scare mongers.
Not surprising.
The network infrastructure it looks like they are talking about is in the core of the internet, big cisco and juniper routers and the like. If anything, the NSA noticed because their surveillance tools are already embedded in those same routers, doing all the things they accuse others of doing. Most of the concern about home routers is about botnets, exploiting them for distributed denial of service attacks in particular. Good passwords, limiting inbound access are sensible steps. The threat from local attackers is much smaller, because it requires physical presence and doesn't scale nearly as well (too slow and uses too much gasoline).
Makes sense. We're out far enough that it would have to be someone with too much time on their hands.
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