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However seeing mention of (and an implementation of) Dual_ECC_DRBG in the slides immediately gives me a lot of pause regarding the security of my router. I love memes more than the next guy but this guy really went out of his way to make this confusing to understand.
This is not surprising. It's a calculated risk to make a product just good enough. Development resources invested in retail wireless gear is minimal. I've worked on firmware for high-confidence industrial wireless gear used in mines. Most of them fall over under load, run obsolete+unpatched code and/or reboot randomly. Retail customers will tend to just put up with it and not return the product before the merchant's…
Mining is a dangerous industry with its own specialist regulators and standards bodies. Equipment failure that can kill people should be taken more seriously than equipment failure that leads to less serious consequences. The thought of wireless gear in mines is pretty scary! I used to build / test equipment for a sub-contractor of Joy Mining and communication between the devices was carried by inch thick cables with…
This is not surprising. It's a calculated risk to make a product just good enough. Development resources invested in retail wireless gear is minimal. I've worked on firmware for high-confidence industrial wireless gear used in mines. Most of them fall over under load, run obsolete+unpatched code and/or reboot randomly. Retail customers will tend to just put up with it and not return the product before the merchant's…
Not the industrial ones. They're unit tested ad-nauseum, subjected to crush and environmental testing. You can run over the units with fully-loaded haul truck, the cases are cast steel. They also retail for $10k USD a piece.
Thankfully I have an older WNDR3700 and I remain unaffected. However seeing mention of (and an implementation of) Dual_ECC_DRBG in the slides immediately gives me a lot of pause regarding the security of my router. I love memes more than the next guy but this guy really went out of his way to make this confusing to understand.