[GLLUG] Home Router Vulnerabilities

[Karl Schuttler]

I would just like to recommend to everyone to use openwrt over ddwrt. DDWRT
is pretty poorly maintained in comparison, although it seems to be more
popular.

On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 1:19 PM, <eos at draggi.es> wrote:

> This will probably help:
> http://security.stackexchange.com/questions/49350/is-dd-wrt-generally-more-secure-than-manufacturers-firmware
>
> On 2015-04-29 10:31, Chick Tower wrote:
>
>> I've been reading that most home routers are woefully insecure.  By
>> replacing the firmware in these routers, do projects like DD-WRT and
>> Tomato remove these vulnerabilities and make the routers secure?
>> Granted, they might have vulnerabilities of their own, but they
>> haven't been in the news for that, and I would expect open-source
>> router firmware to be more secure than proprietary router firmware,
>> whose manufacturers look at security as a cost item to be minimized.
>>
>
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