Who is a good company to buy from for their network stuff?
Who is a good company to buy from for their network stuff?
Is there any other question here? The main brands used to make good network switches back were Trendnet, TP-LINK and Netgear. What about lately? If you're looking for a switch, check forums. You probably won't find the answer there. Some ones are better than others, but no maker is totally safe from problems.
Yeah, back when I asked about picking the right switch, I didn't know they could hurt my security. After looking at lots of reviews and checking where they sell things, I picked a TP-Link router and other Wi-Fi stuff from them. When I set it up, I realized some companies like TP-Link are actually selling user information to others and have safety problems. So now I'm asking another question: which companies can I trust before buying their gear? Which ones are better for me?
Where did you hear that TPLink was selling user info? That sounds like something made up from chats on AI or Reddit. The only company I know who actually stole cell phone records is Huawei. Even the fancy switches used to run servers don't have internet, so they can't send data out. Routers keep settings in their own memory, and TPLink wouldn't be able to read them anyway. But if you use a cloud app to manage your router, then companies might actually get access to your info.
TP-Link routers and Deco Wi-Fi mesh systems caught sharing traffic with third-party vendors According to reports, TP-Link devices are sending data about browser behaviour to third-party providers regardless of whether people consent for them to do so. Affected devices include TP-Link routers and Deco Wi-Fi mesh systems. www.notebookcheck.net Yes, Your Router Collects Data on You. Here's How to Protect Your Privacy Wi-Fi router companies claim they don't track the websites you visit. But all of them collect and share some user data. Here's what to know. www.cnet.com TP-Link Said to be Sharing all Router Traffic with Third Party These days, routers are quite complex devices that are doing much more than just routing data and are often the main security device on a home network. As such, we've seen a surge in third party services such as Asus' AIProtection that runs software from Trend Micro and Netgear Armor in... www.techpowerup.com When I checked security vulnerability of big name companies such as netgear, tp-link, trendnet, I came up some posts of their products having vulnerability issues.
That's a major issue. Anyone can share whatever they want. But it's tough to know what's actually true.
Your internet service provider could watch your data and sell it to others. So I guess everything depends on who you trust the least. You always think someone is trying to catch and record your information for both good and bad reasons. Since all websites use HTTPS, everything is encrypted. At best, they might see that you are on Twitter but not exactly which pages you are looking at. If you don't use your router's DNS as a secret pass-through, it makes it much harder or impossible if you use encrypted DNS. This leaves just your IP address out in the open, which isn't very useful because most servers now live inside cloud data centers and many of them share the same IP address. You can hide that IP with a VPN, I guess. But my guess is that your router tracking you is way less scary than Google or Facebook or all those other junk sites running on your machine. They try to track stuff before it gets encrypted. None of this will get fixed until more people take care of it. Way too many people just put their stupid Alexi box in and let it spy on them while they don't care.
I worked in the defense business. People worry too much about safety when they buy things. It's not just one company selling parts, it's all of them working together and how they give them to people. Even if a company looks honest, their parts might be broken or stolen before the customer even gets them. Supermicro had a problem years ago. Can you trust that brand now? There were stories about Cisco gear getting changed by shop owners before it went out to really safe places like government buildings.
Did you hear that third-party sellers can tweak network gear to get info for themselves? That's real right? What about Netgear, Linksys, and ASUS?