You know what really grinds my gears? The fact that on my newish surfboard modem, when I looked around for a new firmware version, low and behold, apparently Arris&#x2F;Motorola refuse to release the firmware to the consumer&#x2F;owner of the device, and say that it is the ISP&#x27;s responsibility to update firmware!<p>No it&#x27;s not, it&#x27;s my hardware! I understand the docsis 3.0 spec says otherwise, but I disagree with it. So I call my ISP (Suddenlink), and lo and behold, they say it&#x27;s not supported and therefore won&#x27;t update my firmware.<p>Now I find out it&#x27;s probably backdoored!<p>You know, when the NSA and everyone else start talking about cybersecurity, I don&#x27;t fucking beleive a word of it anymore, because if they were really concerned about security, they would be pushing for open source firmware modems, and would be letting these companies know about the vulns and pushing them to close them. Instead they sit on the 0-days like a treasure trove of new weapons.