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How Wi-Fi router security has deteriorated since 2003

The Parallax

The majority of today’s popular Wi-Fi routers run the Linux operating system (which also powers Google’s Android ) with MIPS processors. CITL first detailed a major vulnerability in Linux with MIPS in a report it published alongside its December report on routers. There’s just no safe version of Linux MIPS.”.

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The fundamental problem with Silicon Valley’s favorite growth strategy

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

Developers, no longer able to see opportunity in the personal computer, shifted their attention to the internet and to open source projects like Linux, Apache, and Mozilla. A final settlement in 2001 gave enough breathing room to the giants of the next era, most notably Google and Amazon, to find their footing outside Microsoft’s shadow.