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New router at home this week. Old one is getting flaky and i bought it in 2018 i guess, so time to retire it. This new one, aside from an annoyance on the WiFi options, and it has monster antennas sticking out all over it like something out of a batman movie, has built in openvpn and wireguard servers, and client of some sort. I wonder if i should trust it and ditch my 2 VMs that are doing that now.
some sort. I wonder if i should trust it and ditch my 2 VMs that
are doing that now.
No.
1. I trust the Latvians more than I trust the Chinese.
2. My VPN exists to check a box that says "Yes I used a VPN, I followed the rules, so leave me alone" rather than to provide a particular level of privacy.
Hi again fandarel, nice to see you :)
Its a TP-link. I forget the model without going and looking. its a WiFi 6 thing.
To be honest, i'm less worried about the Chinese watching me than the NSA. I am of zero interest to the CCP as i have no money, influence or secrets, but as i wont follow agenda i am of interest to the US government. Not being a target is one reason it didn't bother me to buy Chinese phones for many years ( they didn't have all the carrier crap, and were 1/4 the price for the same feature set, so it was a practical win ).
I was meaning trust more in the sense of just trusting the thing is going go work, and not go wacko on me or just do stupid stuff and be unstable. Purely from the technical standpoint.
2025-01-09 00:01 from Nurb432
New router at home this week. Old one is getting flaky and i
bought it in 2018 i guess, so time to retire it. This new one,
aside from an annoyance on the WiFi options, and it has monster
antennas sticking out all over it like something out of a batman
movie, has built in openvpn and wireguard servers, and client of
some sort. I wonder if i should trust it and ditch my 2 VMs that
are doing that now.
My policy is to not trust consumer-grade networking equipment. Quite often you can tell it comes with ok hardware, but they can't bother putting together decent firmware for it.
Few years ago id just roll my own. But getting tired.
My policy is to not trust consumer-grade networking equipment. Quite often you can tell it comes with ok hardware, but they can't bother putting together decent firmware for it.
My policy is to not trust consumer-grade networking equipment. Quite
often you can tell it comes with ok hardware, but they can't bother
putting together decent firmware for it.
More and more it's just a system-on-chip with something close to the reference design implemented around it. There's no way every vendor is going to just write a custom operating system so they just take something off the shelf and put their vendor skin on it. I guess that's what makes it relatively easy to replace the firmware.
I'm a big fan of VyOS and I even like it better than a regular Linux image.
I would like to run it at home but I have Mikrotik access points and their controller software is built into their router software so I am sticking with that. Mikrotik RouterOS is pretty decent, if a bit exotic.
To be honest, i'm less worried about the Chinese watching me than the
NSA. I am of zero interest to the CCP as i have no money, influence
Sorry to tell you, they're likely the same. Or at the very least there is probably cross talk.
Nah they have zero interest in me. The only capture of my data is side-noise.
To be honest, i'm less worried about the Chinese watching me than the
NSA. I am of zero interest to the CCP as i have no money, influence
Sorry to tell you, they're likely the same. Or at the very least there is probably cross talk.
2025-01-12 12:25 from Nurb432
Subject: Re: Trusting the new router
Few years ago id just roll my own. But getting tired.
Then just buy non-consumer grade networking hardware.
You can buy old stuff from dealers and still have a better experience with it than running new consumer grade equipment.
2025-01-12 12:25 from Nurb432 <nurb432@uncensored.citadel.org>
Subject: Re: Trusting the new router
Few years ago id just roll my own. But getting tired.
What exactly does this mean, btw? Were you writing router firmware?