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[–] [email protected] 69 points 3 weeks ago (27 children)

I have a TP-Link router. Maybe I'm an idiot, but I searched around for a bit and I literally could not find which models of router were effected. All articles about Botnet-7777 are frustratingly vague with this.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 3 weeks ago (25 children)

I've had no end of trouble with routers and ones you should choose to be sure of.

The ones where you can flash OpenWRT seems the only choice if you want some semblance of security. But even my current Xiaomi router with stock firmware creates hash mismatches using apt to download things, and I don't 100% know with confidence that using OpenWRT on it instead is keeping me right.

[–] InEnduringGrowStrong 44 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

But even my current Xiaomi router with stock firmware creates hash mismatches using apt

That's a huge fucking red flag and I would yeet any network equipment responsible for fudging such a thing.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

No doubt, and I would really love someone with more knowledge than me to poke into why that was going on (*edit: for clarity, this behaviour stopped after installing OpenWRT and is the stock Mi firmware that causes this)

https://files.catbox.moe/2i5ekl.jpg

I remember finding this thread where someone said they replaced their entire networking equipment

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/72022569/cannot-find-fixes-to-apt-error-hash-sum-mismatch

My router is this model for anyone wanting to nosey

https://openwrt.org/toh/xiaomi/ax3600

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