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Re:FBI tells router users to reboot now to kill malware infe... by ryanlol on Saturday May 26, 2018 @07:23PM (#17164713)
Why would routers be handling sensitive information? You're doing something seriously wrong. Perhaps you should be fined for not encrypting your communications?
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Re:FBI tells router users to reboot now to kill malware infe... by staticassertion on Saturday May 26, 2018 @08:11PM (#17164854)
wat

you mean like, say, routing all of the traffic from my system to the internet?

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Re:FBI tells router users to reboot now to kill malware infe... by ryanlol on Saturday May 26, 2018 @09:58PM (#17165104)
You should not be transmitting sensitive information to the internet.
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Re:FBI tells router users to reboot now to kill malware infe... by DougN7 on Sunday May 27, 2018 @06:13PM (#17169381)
So don’t use online banking, or email, or online insurance or any online healthcare, or ... ?
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Re:FBI tells router users to reboot now to kill malware infe... by ryanlol on Monday May 28, 2018 @07:49AM (#17171924)
Do you seriously use any of those without TLS? In the year 2018?
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