https://www.libcom.de/en/tags/networking/ Recent content in Networking on libcom.de Hugo en-GB Mon, 10 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.libcom.de/en/blog/router-security-a-house-of-cards/ Mon, 10 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.libcom.de/en/blog/router-security-a-house-of-cards/ <p>It usually stands in the hallway. Or in the cellar. A flat, warm-running device with blinking LEDs that the provider brought along when the contract was signed. You plug it in, join the Wi-Fi, forget it. Years later it is still running — same firmware, same password, same gaps as on day one.</p> <p>Nobody in the household knows what happens inside it. Nobody can find out. The device that guards the crossing between the public internet and everything that matters to you — banking traffic, family devices, cameras, the VPN tunnel into the home office — is a black box. And the track record of these black boxes is, frankly, catastrophic.</p>