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The KOSA Internet Censorship Bill Just Passed The Senate—It's Our Last Chance To Stop It (www.eff.org)

submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/technology

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[–] PriorityMotif 8 points 1 month ago (2 children)

If you're savy then install open wrt on it. If you want expert mode, then install pfsense on an old PC/laptop. If you want pucker factor, then install pfsense in a VM where the host machine gets it's ip from the VM.

[–] Passerby6497 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

install pfsense in a VM where the host machine gets it's ip from the VM.

Why are you like this, and who hurt you??

[–] PriorityMotif 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It's actually not bad to do it as long as your host machine has a static ip. Makes it easier to take a snapshot before you make major changes. Just be prepared with an extra router. If you have a family the second the Internet is not working you will be blamed.

[–] Passerby6497 1 points 1 month ago

It's actually not bad to do it as long as your host machine has a static ip

Yeah, that's reasonable

install pfsense in a VM where the host machine gets it's ip from the VM

This not so much

If you have a family the second the Internet is not working you will be blamed.

Lol, I get blamed enough for DNS, I don't need routing too

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

What's a good router one can use for openWRT? I just so happen to need a new one. No expert mode for me.

[–] PriorityMotif 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I would just look at routers with the features you want and check to see if it's compatible.

https://openwrt.org/toh/start

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Thanks! Just to be sure, the router company becomes inconsequential when I install openwrt, or am I mistaken?

As in say I buy a linksys router and install openwrt, linksys can no longer spy on my traffic, so I shouldn't worry about that, right?

[–] PriorityMotif 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yeah. There's a possibility that there is a backdoor built into the soc, but that would be nation state level stuff that would be extremely difficult to uncover.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Ok cool thanks, I'll probably go with something on this list then. My other things I was looking at were the Turris Omnia and the Peplink B-one, but tbh a lynksys with openwrt will likely serve me fine.