Comment Re:Idiot pruf (Score 1) 228
- This bug is only exploitable if you enable WAN administration
- All internet traffic involving money / confidential data should be (and pretty much always is) encrypted
- If you are sending important unencrypted data over the wire you can just listen to the wire
- Do you really want to pay for the routers you buy to go through a bureaucratic process to establish whether the software (including third party software) has been thoroughly tested? Should that include the component parts like the processors, thttpd, linux? What would that legislation look like? How would it be enforced for overseas companies?
You'd probably get equally indignant if such legislation actually passed based on your knee-jerk reaction and US router prices shot up. ("But what about the starving family with only $100 budgeted for their router?")