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Google Router Rumors

Posted by timothy on from the google-cars-too-pass-it-on dept.

An anonymous reader writes "There's a new rumor that Google is developing its own router. The company won't comment on the story, but it's been in the hardware business for a while and expanded its presence with Android. If Larry Ellison can go halvsies with HP on a server, then Eric Schmidt should certainly be able to make Cisco nervous."

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  1. revenue stream by Speare · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Well, besides the obvious "buy the box" revenue, how else can Google make money on it? [tinfoil] Always consider every router as a man-in-the-middle. Suddenly, every http: you visit will "help target your ads." One National Security Letter later, and every mailto: and http: and irc: and torrent: that you visit will "enable investigations into conspiracy models."[/tinfoil]

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    1. Re:revenue stream by larry+bagina · · Score: 0, Flamebait

      google reserves 25% of the bandwidth for their own use.

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  2. Ad supported? by ErikTheRed · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    So does it put little text ads into your TCP connections?

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  3. Re:I can see it now... by noidentity · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Given Google's annoying behavior these days, it'd be more like "Hmmm, host isn't responding as quickly as others; I'll change the IP address to one that gets more hits."

  4. Ads IN the network!!! by jameskojiro · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Heck I wouldn't put it past Google to find a way to insert a ad into every TCP/IP packet that goes through their routers.

    Watching a packet sniffer on a network with a google router would be like walking through a text based times square.

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