Re:What happened with Asus routers this morning?
by jameshart on Thursday May 18, 2023 @02:41PM
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Okay, but these asus routers have also silently successfully updated themselves hundreds of times.
So against the one time you win by manually updating, you are weighing hundreds of times you had to research before clicking ‘update’ to see if there were any reports of this update bricking routers?
Because if you don’t do that, you just click the update button whenever you get round to it, you are running your router in a ‘vulnerable to zero days’ configuration, AND you’re going to brick your router the one time they ship an update that goes bad.
Normal case: You lose some features / quality of life / stability improvements for a day / week / month (whenever you get around to updating it).
Best case is that you aren't in general population of bricked routers like everyone else today.
Worst case scenario is that you're late to a zero-day exploit. Although, the tech news cycle tends to report those stories pretty well, so you'd be aware of it.
The pros definitely outweight the cons in my opinion, especially on something critical like my internet access.