[kelnos]

It's even worse: most of these companies don't even write the software for the low end consumer hardware. They just license it from a third party, usually in Asia, and pay them to turn features on or off and skin the UI for their branding.

It's no surprise that routers from competing manufacturers are vulnerable, since it's all the same under the hood. The companies that sell the finished product have zero insight into how secure the software is.

[beojan]

But there's open source software for this. Why don't they just use that?

[pyre]

There is no one to point the finger at (i.e. blame) when something goes wrong.