[themerone]

I chose Google's mesh routers because I have more trust in their security than any competitor. I would feel pretty safe with PFSense, but my needs are way too simple to bother with that.

I know a lot of techies opt for prosumer, small business gear for their home networks, but most of those vendors have crap security trackrecords. Ubiquiti, seems to be the sole standout in this space, but I don't trust them any more than google to produce secure hardware.

[snotrockets]

Security is not privacy though. If I had a piece of information that could kill, I would trust Google with safeguarding it. What I don't trust them, is not to use information they got. Or rather, I expect them to use it (but safeguard it from others, because that's how they make money: by being the only ones allowed access to private information).

[swozey]

Ubiq has had horrendous security issues

[themerone]

Have you seen Krebs on Security most recent update. He pretty much disavowed his reporting on the Ubiquity breach.

Everybody has security breaches. I'm not out there counting CVEs, but anecdotally, it seems that Netgear, TP-Link, microtik have seem to have much worse reputations.

I don't pay attention to the market for high end networking (Cisco, Juniper).

[swozey]

Ah I had forgotten about the update to that. Last I remembered they were suing him. I only have Ubiq equipment.