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That ough to be one of the laziest genAI slop images for a "Chinese router with a backdoor".
Damn, it's bad.
Yeah that one is fairly hideous. Why can't they just use a product shot?
Here you go btw 
therapist: the mimo spider can't get you
the mimo spider:
A report of China obviously and illegally spying on large amounts of people (not only in the USA I might add), and that's the top comment?
I mean, it was assumed and mostly known that it was taking place already. Thats why the government tried to prevent them from being sold in the US. Did anyone really think they were going to give up on spying on world citizens when they were forced to sell TikTok?
No. But a hardware backdoor is a big step from whatever TikTok is doing. And I know it's not the first one either, but still, the disclosure of each and every one deserves attention.
That flag. Ugh.
There was a time when by facebook wall was plastered with AI slop articles, and all of them had flags chucked in like this.
Another case of: use an American router against the Chinese backdoor behind a Chinese router against the American backdoor.
(Or just do open source)
throw an Indian router, an Israeli router and a Turkish router into the chain for extra security
At least they should have good openwrt support!
If its at the hardware level openwrt won't help.
It isn't.
oh COME ON. The last thing I needed in this jingoistic American economy was any reason to legitimize their crap
Do you mean, legitimize the USA being anti-China?
I think it's important to remember that the USA aren't the only bad player on the globe.
We can be against China without being pro MAGA.
In this case, I was thinking of how this could be used to legitimize the decision a couple months ago to block the sale of all foreign-made routers.
(The decision is a terrible one, but I imagine MAGA people will use it to say "I told you so" while ignoring the fact that foreign brand Netgear got an exemption and at least temporary monopoly status.)
DD-WRT solves this
Not necessarily. It would be entirely possible of the manufacturer to implement the original fw in a fused memory and restore from that. Basically persistent uefi malware. One would probably notice it, but i wouldnt bet my life on that being true forever with the rate our tech is advancing
It only solves it if you can install it on those routers. Can you??
I can, they are supported by owrt.
But can i put pfsense or something on it?
What are the chances this is some misguided customer support tool or someone screwing up?
I'd think if this was a deliberate attempt for hacking they'd at least have a proper authentication challenge. You wouldn't want your enemies to have access to your toys too. No matter how socialist you are haha.
.ml moment. The party asked you not to believe your own lying eyes, and you listened.
Hanlon's razor
If it were, they wouldn't have tried to disguise it as a kworker
