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I can go into any router anywhere anytime and pull every website visited, providing that it is not five years ago and the logs have gone past the allocated size, but I guarantee that I can pull at least 3 to 4 years worth of logs.
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Originally Posted by Rob Lister
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. Do you have any?
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As anyone who has written code for routers or supports consumer routers knows the original claim is not true. Oftens logs are not even created on consumer routers and if they are the logs are circular so older entries will get over-written by newer entries. How quickly older entries get over-written depends on the amount of space for the log file and how much information the router has to write to the log file. In practice a log usually has only entries less then 3 months old. The flash space to hold large log files would be cost prohibitive for a consumer router.
Just about all commercial and enterprise routers log off of the router itself and for various legals reasons save older logs. For various legal reasons logs are often deleted after 6 months. Although the recording and motion picture industries and some governments are trying to force longer retention of logs.