Feds spank Asus with 20-year audit probe for router security blunder
: One crappy vendor down, who's next?www.theregister.com
Sure, it's a little old (2016), but they continuously lied to their customers, told them that their routers were patched and secure for years when really they weren't, and it took the FTC to step in for Asus to finally hold their hands up. They might be better now, but they have shown a quite frankly disgusting attitude toward their customers. Even now, product support is nonexistent and they sell mesh systems with fancy advertising for north of £500 and people buy it blindly.
Like I said, this **** is everywhere. People buy cheap tat and plug it into their own personal network without a seconds hesitation or any consideration for security and customer support.
Remember the age me app doing the rounds during Covid? The endpoint where all the images and processing were done was none other than Russia. Yet people still downloaded the app without thinking, ignore and accept the privacy policy (because who reads that) and then unknowingly upload a picture of themselves, no doubt combined with tracking cookie data and the ID used to install the app... to Russia.
It's actually pretty genius when you think about it. Why go to the lengths of harvesting people's data by trawling their Facebook profiles, when you can make an app where people upload a photo of themselves, pay a few influencers on TikTok/Instagram to talk about it, and before you know it you've got several hundred million high quality facial portraits.
