I don't believe it's well-intentioned. It's meant to make sure the feral government has a back-door to EVERYTHING.
Most Firmware on routers bytes and is horrible, the Open source wireless router firmware works great, Open WRT, DD-WRT, etc...
“I don’t believe it’s well-intentioned. It’s meant to make sure the feral government has a back-door to EVERYTHING.”
Yep.
“Running DD-WRT on my E3000 right now. “
Well, if they are using Linux, that part of the source would have to be “open” AFAIK. They could do a closed-source driver but it’s functionality would eventually be reverse-engineered.
I ran DD-WRT on my E3000 for years before I picked up some gigabit Cisco hardware. If founds out the E3000 was the bottleneck in my network, and once it was out of the picture, I was hitting crazy speeds from my provider, which I was paying for the whole time.