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- hayzeus, on 06/30/2008, -0/+6Most unfortunate headline ever. What they mean, of course, is that the router is amenable to open-source firmware replacement.
- Dracker, on 07/02/2008, -0/+1Unfortunately, Netgear's previous wireless routers performed so badly that not even this development can stop my boycott.
- jackusage, on 07/02/2008, -0/+1NetGear, you've shown up for this way too late.
- matthekc, on 07/01/2008, -0/+1@hayzeus the headline could be unfortunate depending on your definition of the word hacker. The older definition just meant someone who can do things with electronics and code that are new and often ingenious. With todays definition one should add the white or black hat designation.
- inactive, on 08/11/2008, -0/+1Actiontec routers run a linux distro called "busybox" that has some pretty cool ***** installed by default, like a telnet server/client, tftp server/client, curl, wget, lhttpd, and an array of shell commands. However if you want to replace the firmware it's a little tricky, as you have to send it a specially-crafted packet, but this is demonstrated on several online guides. They're really cheap though and if you sign up for Qwest I believe you get one for free.
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