Software Security for you

“I don't believe society understands what happens when everything is available, knowable and recorded by everyone all the time”  -  Google Chairman Eric Schmidt   told  the Wall Street Journal 8-14-10. “We know where you are. We know where you've been. We can more or less know what you're thinking about;” -  Google Chairman Eric Schmidt  10-1-10 per the  Atlantic . Privacy problems with today’s internet:  Your ISP knows everything about your online activity Websites knows you physical location and have data about you. Can trace how often you visit and more You are constantly watched and your data is been recorded “Even if you're not doing anything wrong, you are being watched and recorded”   -  Edward Snowden Online Security Problem: You could land up in phishing website that looks exactly like your bank website or facebook or the one you frequently visit and end-up giving your credentials Identity theft is a ...

Rooting Android phone using Cyanogenmod (or similar mods) gives your phone pure android experience without any blotted apps. You get features that are not available on default firmware to make it feature rich. It’s built on open source and you can rely on it. What if you could root Wi-Fi router to get new feature set ?  E.g.  TOR based privacy  via Wi-Fi   or  Online Security  or get  Secured and customizable OS on router  - Sounds interesting ? Wi-Fi routers in market are re-programmable. You could install new firmware on it to make it enterprise grade router.    How to root your Wi-Fi router ? If you are a super geek, you could install  OpenWRT  and configure it as you want. OpenWRT is Open Source Linux distribution for Wi-Fi router. Its free for anyone to download and use OpenWRT is customizable and there are packages available that you could download and install on top of it to provide TOR Privacy, Security or ...