On 16 January 2014 14:38, Max Mehl max.mehl@fsfe.org wrote:
Sorry to ask but in which country did Sky Broadband do this? As far as I know, Sky operates in many european countries.
I'm talking about the UK here.
In the UK, BT also sell a completely-supported but utterly locked modem. I have one here, a BT HomeHub 3. It's quite a nice router, and I'd like to jailbreak it ...
My personal opinion is that it's not basically bad that ISPs give routers by default to their customers. Of course, only one model makes maintainability easier and some customers do not even want to choose a router theirselves. But some people do, and imagine the situation that the vendor of your router is suspected to install backdoors for western intelligence agencies - and you cannot switch the hard- or firmware. Is this a nightmare only for me?
I'm not sure that's the most likely threat model - the NSA cracks catalogue lists cracks for generic Huawei modems. So we come to the problem of embedded systems that don't get security updates.
- d.