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> So... out of the possible millions of routers TP-Link has sold in this model line, less than 21 are on the public internet

Make that 47,000 of them on Shodan: https://www.shodan.io/search?query=hash%3A-904286784

> 1) These routers all have secured passwords that are non-default.

You have a very interesting definition of "secured" if you think they are all actually secured.

> 2) These routers were deliberately placed on the internet by people that knew enough about them to do so.

Just because they knew enough to click a checkbox doesn't mean they knew enough to do so. If they knew enough, they wouldn't have done so.

You seem to be under the mistaken impression that embedded devices (like consumer routers) don't usually have glaring security holes. But they do.




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