Linksys Holdings, Inc.
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Oct 13, 2026
Jess HebenstreitHOST
Yeah
Jake WilliamsHOST
... y- you're, we're, we're not trusting your Linksys whatever the heck, you know, dot, dot, dot.
Jess HebenstreitHOST
Yeah.
Jake WilliamsHOST
Or, or your ISP-provided modem for that matter.
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Jess HebenstreitHOST
Oh, right.
Jake WilliamsHOST
Like, you know, when...
Jake WilliamsHOST
I don't know what you run at home, and I'm not asking by the way, right? But like, um, you know, if you go for your Netgear, Linksys, whatever the heck you, you've got, right? Um, TP-Link maybe.
Jake WilliamsHOST
I, I hope not, but whatever.
MikeAUDIENCE
Why would they give them limited liability back in the 1980s? And we saw this, I guess, after the Snowden leaks.
MikeAUDIENCE
Linksys, Belkin, and a whole bunch of these Wi-Fi router companies waited six, seven months after WikiLeaks, I guess Vault 17, I think it was, leaked that there was malware or backdoors in these routers.
MikeAUDIENCE
And finally it hit the mainstream news in about late May, I think, and then by early June, Linksys had firmware that you could download to update their Linksys routers.
MikeAUDIENCE
Back to stuff that they had not supported for several years, because I happened to have one.
MikeAUDIENCE
I was going to install an aftermarket firmware, and it was supposed to make it high performance.
TomHOST
Right.
TomHOST
I think Linksys in general, in any of these other ones, if they even exist anymore, like they've all kind of gone the way of like TP-Link of just making junk.
TomHOST
Yeah.
TomHOST
Even Netgear.
Bob TinkerGUEST
We probably all laugh about now, oh my God, there was a time when we did not use Wi-Fi at work? But this was 2002.
Bob TinkerGUEST
Intel had just put Wi-Fi built into their very first laptop, and people were like, "How do I use this? What can I attach it to?" And all of a sudden now people were bringing it to work saying, "How do I attach this to a network?" And they were putting Linksys access points under their desks and creating holes into the network and creating huge security issues.
Bob TinkerGUEST
Airspace's mission was to bring Wi-Fi to the enterprise.
Bob TinkerGUEST
That worked out pretty well.
Pat CopelandGUEST
I mean, it's been like 10 years now or more than that, and it's, they're still shipping Google Wifi and have evolved it, uh, quite a bit.
Pat CopelandGUEST
Um, but that was, I, that was a passion project where I w- watched my in-laws try to set up an old Linksys router and-
NickHOST
[chuckles]
Pat CopelandGUEST
...
ErnieHOST
That and like their home lab.
ErnieHOST
And they kind of get back to me and they're like, oh, you know, I just got like a Linksys router.
ErnieHOST
It's not doing anything.
ErnieHOST
Or you'd be like, well, what'd you do to secure it? And they're like, I don't know, man, I just plugged it in.
Lee NeelyPANELIST
I think you're right.
Lee NeelyPANELIST
If you want to play with OpenWRT, go get an old Linksys for $50.
Lee NeelyPANELIST
I mean, come on.
Lee NeelyPANELIST
And if you want to, I mean, yeah, but for $129, I mean, buy a new one.
Lee NeelyPANELIST
Disagree? I think you're right.
Lee NeelyPANELIST
If you want to play with OpenWRT, go get an old Linksys for $50.
Lee NeelyPANELIST
I mean, come on.
Lee NeelyPANELIST
And if you want to, I mean, yeah, but for 129 bucks or, I mean, buy a new one.
Lee NeelyPANELIST
I think you're right.
Lee NeelyPANELIST
If you want to play with OpenWRT, go get an old Linksys for $50.
Lee NeelyPANELIST
I mean, come on.
Lee NeelyPANELIST
And if you want to, I mean, yeah, but for $129, I mean, buy a new one.
Lee NeelyPANELIST
Disagree? I think you're right.
Lee NeelyPANELIST
If you want to play with OpenWRT, go get an old Linksys for $50.
Lee NeelyPANELIST
I mean, come on.
Lee NeelyPANELIST
And if you want to, I mean, yeah, but for 129 bucks or, I mean, buy a new one.
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