4 months to deliver a security patch of this significance? Would love to know what kind of situation leads to that kind of latency.
https://github.com/elvanderb/TCP-32764
There is helpful hints in that research that enabled me to view the firmware of my own router
To me this just illustrates the need for fully open-sourced hardware and software with domestic production facilities.
Also, this is more likely a case of incompetence, not maliciousness.
Was the Solarwinds hack an act of malice, then?
Some execs or managers demanding a backdoor, then secretly privately selling the secret password to various nation states and private security companies (for personal profit)