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436 points kennedn | 1 comments | 15 Sep 25 16:28 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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selinkocalar ◴[15 Sep 25 22:43 UTC] No.45255874[source]▶
IoT security is generally terrible, but the fact that consumer routers are essentially unaudited black boxes processing all your network traffic is genuinely concerning. Most people have no idea their router firmware hasn't been updated in years and is probably running known CVEs. The supply chain trust model for networking hardware is broken.
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briHass ◴[16 Sep 25 00:09 UTC] No.45256498[source]▶
The stuff on the shelf, sure, but you can always go 'prosumer-grade' like Ubiquiti or Mikrotik for hardware that actually receives timely updates and has competently written firmware.
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drnick1 ◴[16 Sep 25 00:17 UTC] No.45256548[source]▶
Ubiquiti is awful, it's a cloud-centric ecosystem. The best "prosumer-grade" stuff is probably OpenWrt. If you need more power, opnSense or a plain Linux distro on an x86 machine.
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1. 31337Logic ◴[16 Sep 25 02:23 UTC] No.45257345[source]▶
100% this.