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Mystery malware destroys 600,000 routers from a single ISP during 72-hour span (arstechnica.com)
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[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 0 points 5 months ago

I mean, the ISP-provided boxes don’t give you a way to upgrade past that faster than you would on an open distribution. The latter had fixes out within a week, or just weren’t affected. And it’s also way easier to check the deps on open firmware/OSes.