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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. All major router vendors shipped fewer routers with firmware sporting ASLR protections in 2018 than in 2012, he said. Chart showing the D-Link DAP-2690 dropping ASLR in 2016.

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The fundamental problem with Silicon Valley’s favorite growth strategy

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

Microsoft was founded in 1975, and its operating systems?—first When Microsoft moved to crush Netscape, the darling of the new internet industry, by shipping a free browser as part of its operating system, it had gone too far. In 1994, Microsoft was sued by the U.S. Even worse, organic clicks are actually disappearing.