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A look at home routers, and a surprising bug in Linux/MIPS (cyber-itl.org)
4 points by walterbell on Dec 15, 2018 | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments



TL;DR of the paper "Build Safety of Software in 28 Popular Home Routers, by Parker Thompson and Sarah Zatko":

>These findings suggest an industry-wide failure to audit and test the security of the software running on these products.

>Indeed, our review shows that even the most basic practices are being largely ignored.


All you need to know choosing home routers - could you install OpenWRT on it, or not.




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