Gonna be really funny when it’s revealed in 5 years that Netgear routers have a backdoor for the Chinese govt and the US okayed it because of the money the Trump admin got.
It’s literally the type of corruption that was claimed China would do for the last 4 decades.
…now see, you SAY funny. I think we have a difference of opinions on humor. You know what I find funny? You ever see that old video from the 90s of Donald Duck slumped down in his chair, getting a handjob from Daisey duck? And he can’t handle it. He’s all like “Ooooooweeeeee!!! Oh my gaaawwwwddddddd!!! Playin wit ma balls! Playin wit ma balls!!! Oooooooh!!!”
And then he just cums EVERYWHERE, and it’s all drippy on Daiseys face. She’s just kneeling there, with a shocked look on her face, and Donald says “I’ll go get you a towel!”
I found that funny. Not so much national corruption, bribery, and internet security fraud.
I don’t think Netgear has any link to China
Just where they are manufactured
First winner of the Netgear Peace Prize to be announced shortly.
I get the aching feeling its because Netgear likely agreed to some backdoor shit, or to just funnel all user traffic to ICE
Netgear likely agreed to some backdoor shit
If that’s how you win Trump’s favor, count me out forever.
Sounds like netgear routers are now 100% confirmed to be compromised with backdoors instead of just being probable
Time to flash the old Netgear router with some open source firmware.
Yep, but unfortunately it’s not always as straight forward as it may sound. Plus, with routers becoming more difficult to acquire, it’ll only get harder and harder to pull off. But there’s OpenWRT and dd-WRT that work with a pretty decent range of routers as well as ASUS Merlin for many ASUS routers. Then, if you want to get nerdy with it and build your own router from an old computer, there’s OPNsense and pfSense. Eventually it’ll come down to these two if the ban is longterm and you want any semblance of obfuscation online…
I tried getting into the nerdy side. I have an old PC with only one NIC, but apparently it needs two in order to bridge to a WiFi AP? That makes sense, but I don’t have an old PC with two NICs. Also, my NIC doesn’t support as much bandwidth as I have supplied anyhow. Sad times.
Edit: the desktop is old enough that the mobo doesn’t have the slots I need. Effectively, I have to get a new old burner PC. It’s an old ThinkCentre with a dvd player built in.
Great, now I just need everyone else to do this, I can have the greatest most rebust setup imaginable, what am I gonna use it for? To talk to the other two people with similar setups?
I assure you there are multiple people on this thread alone that have this setup. It’s not like you somehow can’t access the public internet once you’ve got a homemade router.
And I know who you are cause I who you aren’t.
Sure boss. I’m running pfsense as we speak, so like I said, you can access the public internet just fine with a homemade router.
Corruption is pretty obvious these days.
It may always have been, its just more obvious than before.
Yeah this. They’re not trying to hide it anymore. Just 10 years ago corruption may have required journalistic effort to uncover, now the admin yokels shout it from the rooftops, hoping to “trigger the libs”.
Spyware preinstalled. Has to be.
Well netgear has a stellar reputation for screwing up their firmware horribly so if they are involved in implementing the implant it absolutely will be noticed.
Alternatively, if it suddenly starts working, we know they aren’t writing it.
Are they better than they were 2 decades ago?
Cause last time I had a netgear router, they screwed up their hardware too… Fucker got so hot that it literally liquefied its plastic shell.
Is feature
Except they don’t even bother with the table anymore.
It’s obvious: the reason is money
Two possible reasons:
They agreed to installation of American spyware, probably not limited to models sold in the US, or they paid their dues to Trump, and he called the FCC.
“Corruption” is the word you were looking for.
Yes, but that would take work.
This is tech journalism. If evidence connecting something can’t be Googled in 30 seconds, it’s just an area of speculation.
This tells me Netgear probably bent the knee and kissed the ring.
and paid the bribe
paid that troll toll.
Or opened its backdoor.
“Had its backdoor opened” rather. It’s the Epstein class we’re dealing with here.
This whole situation has made me realize that I need to get back on the OpenWRT train.
Makes sense that it would be one of the shittiest corps :/
Who makes good consumer network gear? I feel like the two big names (NetGear and TP-Link) are both awful
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There’s a reason and the reason will likely be revealed to be kickbacks and payoffs.
Or perhaps other reasons…
ah so don’t buy a netgear router because the US Government will be listening in/watching. got it.
Do you really think they weren’t already?
Right, do we not remember PRISM? Edward Snowden is still living in exile in Russia.
They don’t need to tap your router when they already tap the routes.
And likely have hardware backdoors anyway.