It does feel a little invasive. But are you sure the password is stored in the cloud? I am no security expert, but conceivably I wonder if it's still possible for the password to be saved in the router as before. Come to think of it, what if you have 5 routers? One password will control all of them?

What is the upside here? Not once since I started using a router 15 years ago did I ever wish I could control my router when I wasn't home. I supposed someone who has an internet camera might want that, but that seems like a very limited purpose, and you'd still want to control the camera not the router itself.

I don't know if it's a coincidence, but my USB hard drive is no longer visible on the network. That's actually the reason I tried to log on this morning to fix the hard drive connection, when to my surprise the new interface appeared. I still haven't fixed it because of the new interface.

Who wants to plug in a hard drive into a router that is open to the internet on the eve of introduction of this new future before it has been tested thoroughly? Remember how secure WEP and WPA were supposed to be until they were broken? And with their limited range I really wasn't worried. Now somebody on the other side of the globe has a shot at breaking into network. Sheesh.

A couple of weeks ago, I was asking about the error message that appears when you try to connect to the router through an encrypted https connection. That error message still appears and will come back to haunt us because it's so easy to click through when there is a realy problem with the certificate.