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Re:Over 65,000 Home Routers Are Proxying Bad Traffic for Bot... by dcow on Monday April 16, 2018 @06:49AM (#16848021)
Sorry perhaps I don't understand your point, but the research is about governments and bad actors penetrating home networks for their own use.

Source? This isn't a new report. All it talks about is that misconfigured upnp is used by one APT framework (see: https://www.symantec.com/blogs/threat-intelligence/inception...).

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Re:Over 65,000 Home Routers Are Proxying Bad Traffic for Bot... by vuln on Monday April 16, 2018 @07:14AM (#16848119)
Umm... It was leaked the CIA (the US government exploited home routers...

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/06/advan...

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