News D-Link refuses to patch yet another security flaw, suggests users just buy new routers — D-Link told users to replace NAS last week

[Admin]

D-Link says it will not fix security flaw found in routers due to end-of-life concerns and instead suggests users buy new routers. This comes on the heels of the company refusing to fix a security flaw in NAS devices just last week.

D-Link refuses to patch yet another security flaw, suggests users just buy new routers — D-Link told users to replace NAS last week : Read more

 

[hotaru251]

OpenWrt​

(or similar opensource ones)

honestly more people need to encourage using no longer supported routers w/ opensource stuff as its a waste to not use em just because official maker stops supporting em when they function perfectly fine.

 

[tek-check]

Show them a middle finger, spread the news of the shameless practice and never buy their products again.

 

[bill001g]

Seems home consumers are just finding out about this and are surprised what end of life means. I remember cisco life time warranty on switches which really means until they decide to declare it dead.

Large enterprise equipment has had this issue for as long as I can remember. But like these dlink router they are basically ewaste. Who is really going to be running a router with 100mbps ports now days. Commercial equipment is generally replaced long before it hits end of life. Most companies dump not long after it hits end of support.

At least they still function even with the hacking risk. There are many devices that will not function without some subscription and the company decides to no longer support it.

 

[newtechldtech]

Show them a middle finger, spread the news of the shameless practice and never buy their products again.

show me one company that gives you support after EOL date ?

 

[Konomi]

Show them a middle finger, spread the news of the shameless practice and never buy their products again.

If a product is EOL, support stops. If the product still receives patches, then it is not EOL. You cannot have EOL and still receive support, it's that simple. About time a company sticks to it.

 

[USAFRet]

Show them a middle finger, spread the news of the shameless practice and never buy their products again.

Some of the listed devices are 15 years old, and EOL 8 years ago.

This is absolutely normal.

 

[Alvar "Miles" Udell]

Some of the listed devices are 15 years old, and EOL 8 years ago.

This is absolutely normal.

It's also normal for TH to publish these clickbaity articles, sadly.

 

[thestryker]

OpenWrt​

(or similar opensource ones)

honestly more people need to encourage using no longer supported routers w/ opensource stuff as its a waste to not use em just because official maker stops supporting em when they function perfectly fine.

Most routers with Broadcom processors simply cannot use anything of the sort due to no drivers and modern equipment has shaky support in general. If someone cares about security without big cost they should be running a minipc with pfsense/opnsense and keep wireless behind that.

 

[Kondamin]

Show them a middle finger, spread the news of the shameless practice and never buy their products again.

You would be doing your self a favour by retiring decade old 100mbit routers, you would probably save money over time energy wise because of the faster network speeds you would be getting.