But Lin knew better.
It wasn’t about privacy from hackers. It was about survival. w1700k openwrt
To Lin, the W1700K was a fortress. A week ago, he had pried open its beige shell, soldered a header onto the UART port, and flashed it with a custom build of . The factory firmware had been a bloated, insecure mess—a backdoor factory. Now, the little router ran a lean, mean Linux kernel, its 8MB of flash crammed with iptables rules, a WireGuard tunnel, and a custom packet-sniffing script. But Lin knew better