I see. Replace "local access" control with "let anyone on the internet reconfigure the thing". Whoever's idea it was should be p*ssed on, keelhauled, drawn and quartered, then burned at the stake.
--- () ascii ribbon campaign against html e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org > -----Original Message----- > From: Sean Harlow [mailto:s...@seanharlow.info] > Sent: Thursday, 05 July, 2012 10:26 > To: Hank Nussbacher > Cc: nanog@nanog.org > Subject: Re: Cisco Update > > On Jul 5, 2012, at 12:08, Hank Nussbacher wrote: > > > For those of us who have not kept up with every latest feature that Cisco > rolls out across all its platforms, can someone explain this new service? Is > it like Windows update, where Cisco will auto-update your router s/w and > thereby brick it? If I don't register my router with Cisco, what do I lose? > I can't update it manually? > > Long story short, the affected routers (newer "Cisco" [former Linksys] > consumer products) received an automatic firmware update which basically > disables the device's onboard web UI and forces you to use Cisco's "cloud" > management system. The biggest issue with this is that apparently it has > some function, possibly for web filtering, which sends network traffic > information of some sort to Cisco's service. They also state that regardless > of the auto-update setting a device may be updated anyways if Cisco says so. > > One article I found says it affects the E2700, E3500, and E4500 models. >
