Broadband Tech > Security > Security > Linksys N routers: open to Cisco's snooping?

... Recent events have demonstrated that these routers will eventually invoke Parental Controls, outside of the control of the user. ...

... What is happening with users is that if Easy Link Advisor is installed, sooner or later web sites are blocked, purportedly by Trend Micro Security that in most cases has not been installed by the user. ...

.. Now, Cisco has cooperated the the US Government in developing commercial routers with back-door snooping features available. ...

... with Cisco/Linksys N routers, invocation of Parental Controls that are embedded in firmware, with no notice to users, and the inability of users to turn the damned parental control off ...