Experts Target Wi-Fi Routers Under New Internet Security Plan

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“We can’t afford to let any part of the Internet’s infrastructure rot in place,” said Vint Cerf, co-inventor of the internet. 

It’s not just security researchers who are fed up with hearing day after day about a new security vulnerability in a widely-used Wi-Fi router. Even the co-inventor of the internet, Vint Cerf, has had enough. In a letter to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), the government body that regulates the airwaves and internet services, more than 260 leading internet experts argued that new proposals could lead to “buggy and insecure software” for off-the-shelf home and office routers, 

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