Compulsory Routers in your country

[Carsten Agger]

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On 01/16/2014 03:38 PM, Max Mehl wrote:

> 
> My personal opinion is that it's not basically bad that ISPs give
> routers by default to their customers. Of course, only one model
> makes maintainability easier and some customers do not even want to
> choose a router theirselves. But some people do, and imagine the
> situation that the vendor of your router is suspected to install
> backdoors for western intelligence agencies - and you cannot switch
> the hard- or firmware. Is this a nightmare only for me?
> 
If you can change your router (ideally to one running only free
software, using protocols specified by the ISP), you can protect
yourself in the case where you trust your ISP, but not the router it
supplies you.

In that scenario, if you don't trust your ISP all is lost unless you
use VPN or Tor.

How to trust your ISP would be the "next problem" after getting rid of
compulsory routers, I suppose.
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