Practical home network security guides from an engineer with 4+ years supporting OPNsense, pfSense, Linux, and *BSD firewall/router deployments. No fluff. No upsells. Just answers.
Utah Senate Bill 73 takes effect May 6, 2026. The law itself is a dud. The trajectory it points at is not, and the VPN industry walked us right into it. A Gen-Xer's take on a chess match the VPN industry started.
Read moreOperation Masquerade: Russia's GRU hijacked 18,000 home routers to steal passwords and emails. The FBI had to hack your router to un-hack it. A Gen-Xer's take on what happened and what you can do about it.
Read moreThe FCC banned foreign-made routers for "national security" then exempted Netgear, a company that manufactures everything in Indonesia, Vietnam, and Thailand. Their stock jumped 17%. Here's what's really going on and what actual router security looks like.
Read moreThe definitive comparison from someone who's spent 4+ years supporting both. History, licensing, the PPPoE controversy, upstream contributions, and which one you should actually run. No punches pulled.
Read moreOn March 23rd the FCC banned all new foreign-made consumer routers. But hundreds of millions of vulnerable routers are still in American homes. The ban is security theater. Here's what actually makes a router secure and what you can do about it.
Read more71% of American households rent their router from their ISP. That's 90 million homes paying monthly for hardware that does almost nothing for their security. Here's what's actually going on inside that box and why it matters.
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