[Cryptography] "Home router warning: They're riddled with known flaws and run ancient, unpatched Linux"

[Sid Spry]

On Thu, Jul 9, 2020, at 5:52 PM, Jeremy Stanley wrote:
> At a minimum. And if you can set up hardware address filtering or
> port/client isolation on your switches and WAPs so that each device
> can only communicate through the gateway, all the better. If you
> just stick your untrusted devices on a LAN together, then they can
> still be leveraged to compromise each other after all. You don't
> want whoever's pwn3d the company that provides your "smart
> thermostat" to hack your television's voice activation feature and
> start listening to all your conversations.

If the complaint is about malicious or unmaintained hardware why do
you expect your switch to listen to you if your router won't?