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Apparently in order for a home network, with modern appliances to be secure you need to be at least a geek these days.

You probably need a router that runs OpenWRT, Linux or BSD like caramobola2[1], to configure manually in order to monitor incoming and outgoing connections, blocking suspicious traffic.

Then you probably need something that can run XBMC[2] as a home entertainment system (atom HTPC works like a charm, I have one). Then a flashed dreambox PVR which runs linux too and you can do a lot of things but most importantly monitor everything.

So basically, anything that runs proprietary software is a security concern. Strangely, the more corporations try to build walled gardens the bigger the security risk is.

[1] http://8devices.com/carambola-2

[2] http://xbmc.org/



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