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One of the victims with a technical background that spoke during the enemy of state event at the national libertarian convention today referenced the name of the specific remote management protocol that governments are using to take control of ISP supplied routers/modems and spy on users.As someone behind a product that hinders this sort of abuse through a router that can sit between your ISP supplied modem/router (or spying device) and your actual network I found it quite interesting to hear from a technical user describe their experience when a government exploited this functionality against them. So it’s something we’ve known was possible on routers and I’ve mostly only read about in the case of cellular phones and/or articles have alluded to. On routers it's called the TR-069 protocol, and apparently has been succeeded by TR-369. In any event I hadn’t known the name of the specific protocol prior (not that it would have been hard to figure out, it’s not a secret) and thought it was interesting to hear that it’s what was in fact exploited and used against him. My companies routers solve this problem of course which made it particularly interesting for me to hear someone even if only briefly bring it up where it’s been used against an actual person with first hand experience.Basically the moral of the story is stick a router you actually control in-between your ISP supplied modem (or for that matter any modem) and computers/printers/devices.If your interested in watching the video you can find it here:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h450fh7qvksThese are the two router products my company currently develops that can mitigate the threat:https://www.thinkpenguin.com/gnu-linux/free-software-wireless-n-mini-vpn-router-v3-tpe-r1300https://www.thinkpenguin.com/gnu-linux/free-software-gigabit-mini-vpn-router-tpe-r1400