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Re:Belkin Explains Why Its Routers Stopped Working by valarauca1 on Wednesday October 08, 2014 @04:36PM (#8429322)
I hope the router implements TLS to transfer the firmware. Otherwise, that certainly isn't a massive attack vector.
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Re:Belkin Explains Why Its Routers Stopped Working by VLM on Wednesday October 08, 2014 @05:27PM (#8429557)
Some 3rd parties (.gov etc) see that as a feature. Not everything is either customer friendly or outright malice.
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Re:Belkin Explains Why Its Routers Stopped Working by MichaelGG on Wednesday October 08, 2014 @07:53PM (#8430062)
TLS isn't required. The updates only need to be signed.
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