Ask Slashdot: Can Commercial Hardware Routers Be Trusted?

First time accepted submitter monkaru writes "Given reports that various vendors and encryption algorithms have been compromised. Is it still possible to trust any commercial hardware routers or is 'roll your own' the only reasonable path going forward?" What do you do nowadays, if anything, to maintain your online privacy upstream of your own computer?

Re:Still have to rely on the NICs

[Anonymous Coward]

[Posting Anon to preserve mods already made...]

I still have nightmares from that. We call it Intel NIC Debacle of 2013 (or sometimes just The Dark Times). Lost business and had many very angry customers because of that NIC. Kristian Kielhofner should be named some sort of geek Saint or something for finding the root of the problem.

Jesus Ad Hominem Christ! You got this close and didn't even think about naming him Saint NIC?!?

Prepare to be visited by the Ghost of Slashdot Past....

Re:Not trusting vendors = you give up a lot

[Anonymous Coward]

He died non-violently in December 2001 of kidney failure.