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Country that put backdoors into Cisco routers to spy on world bans foreign routers
(www.theregister.com)
this post was submitted on 24 Mar 2026
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Welp, so much for OpenWRT on cheap devices designed for routing (even though flashing the firmware to install it probably got rid of any backdoors anyway); now we'll have to resort to OPNSense on overkill PC hardware.
Came here to say... US (and everyone else) would be way more secure if it mandated routers use OpenWRT and funded a few red/blue security engineers to work on it full time
almost like its not about security