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Thousands of hacked TP-Link routers used in years-long account takeover attacks (arstechnica.com)
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[–] SharkAttak@kbin.melroy.org 14 points 3 days ago (1 children)

my current Xiaomi router

Ah I see the problem right there..

[–] ladfrombrad@lemdro.id 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

As opposed to, TP-Link, Cisco(Linksys) and other off the shelf routers it seems some will only go for brands with their own proprietary firmware?

I grabbed that Xiaomi router on the premise it has OpenWRT, but I'd like to see Ubi / Unifi routers put under the same scrutiny instead of just lumping a brand name as a no-go.

What's your recommendation?

[–] SharkAttak@kbin.melroy.org -2 points 2 days ago

Mine was a half-joke, but it's not the first time chinese hardware was caught sending data around. Now I can't recommend anything specific since the last time I bought a router was ages ago, and even though having one running OpenWRT is good I'd avoid it to be on the safer side.