Why I quit this battle

Notes for those pushing forward - the last working wayback machine snapshot before he FFR'ed the website and let the blue smoke out of his fight:

http://web.archive.org/web/20211002154145/https://www.badmod...

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I feel bad for him. Fighting for good security or even a better product shouldn't cost people years of their lives but as long as it doesn't come at the expense of the product's bottom line, there is little reason to compel change as it doesn't impact the bottom line which is what decides whether something is made for most big corporate outputs.

The same argument could be said about "Tech Debt" or non-UL labeled products and a myriad of other causes.

Zero fucks will be paid to anything not socially cool even if it is the responsible thing to do.

That's why we live in the world we live in now.

It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out why the world is crap. But for the most part, it takes that "title" just to have a microphone loud enough to move the needle.

This little part of life is what I'm currently struggling with in my post-Covid decision making.

>It's unpopular from my standpoint because it "necessitates/assumes the trustworthyness of an external provider of compute service". It being considered a default implies you waive 4th Amendment protections.

This is why we should learn from what Ed Snowden presented as just about all of the data gathered by NSA and their contemporaries utilized the concept that encryption and security should only exist at the edge and they were capturing network traffic inter-network and intra-DC.

There were reasons why companies like Google took his whistleblowing seriously and changed their infrastructure accordingly because none of them feel safe leaving their "secret sausage recipe" exposed while still technically out of band from the customer paths.

Wowee...

So I am the Badmodems.com guy. I started getting emails to the badmodems email and I came looking for this thread.

I did fight the good fight. I took out a whole division of Intel. They sold off the connected home div and the Puma. Then the Puma has now pretty much died out.

That last battle tho, with the cable co admin network. OMG. That was some crazy shit. My health is better now and putting all that crap behind me was the right thing to do for my sanity..

My fav part of the whole Intel battle was when i did a 6 hour deposistion in the class action lawsuit. Arris lawyers and Intel battering me for 6 hours. All under oath and videoed. That was SO AWESOME. It was a intense battle. I won all of it. They never pinned me down once. I can also now discuss it and Intel did internal testing and even hired a outside testing lab. They did this really early. The discovery process got emails that confirmed horrendous performance and in email they decided to keep selling it with defects they knew they could not fix.

The cable co admin network thing,, oh gawd what a mess. There was a HUGE comcast network faceplant right when I was working with a guy in europe and with Comcast. Comcast as a whole pretty much fell over in most cities. I never found out what happened. I think Comcast was trying to patch holes and borked their own network.

I am glad to hear people got something from all my efforts. I did save everyone on cableCo systems worldwide from the Puma/Intel. They literally had plans to dominate the world and take over the home while destroying the only competition, Broadcom.I did, pretty much single handed, prevent really nasty devices from polluting the world and now have sent that whole chip into a grave.