[lug] Questionable Cisco Router Updates

[Stephen Kraus]

Saw this, actually helped someone downgrade after being forced to upgrade.

Cisco has just gotten too enamored in the cloud.

On Mon, Jul 9, 2012 at 6:40 PM, Ferdinand Schmid <ferdinand at schmidix.net>wrote:

> Hello,
>
> The below link talks about Cisco rolling out firmware updates to Linksys
> devices, which allows Cisco to monitor all traffic, as well as brick the
> routers if they deem the traffic violates their use policy:
>
>
> http://ifwnewsletters.newsletters.infoworld.com/t/8411456/474630184/640948/0/
>
> It's an infoworld article in case the link breaks in transmission (I am
> sending this from my Android device).
>
> This e-mail is intended to create awareness among the group since I
> suspect there are a few Linksys users out there who may not want to update
> their firmware at this time :-)
>
> Ferdinand
>
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