I do know of at least one company who has black-holed the entire DoD ip space and are using it for internal space, which is why I gave a speculation warning... it's really strange regardless.

> Note to self: never buy a Korean security product.

The Canadian Navy very recently made a major choice and agreed with you

https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-d&q=hanwha+oc...

The DoWD owns such a large chunk of the IP space, it can very easily be a coincidence

Or Korean IoT products. The ones I was working on had insane approach to security.

As if domestic products aren't a hot mess of security issues and sloppy engineering. Lol

> Department of War

n.b., it's the Department of Defense, just like the Kennedy Center doesn't have Trump's name attached, and the large body of water by Texas is the Gulf of Mexico.

just buy stuff you can put your own firmware/os on because it's either just the worst security in the world (aka anything not from china) or, well... china.

and while i currently don't hate china as much as i do US rn (because canadian; sorry) i can also say -- due to being an aforementioned leaflandian -- that due to very personal experience i have zero faith in anything from china that has the ability to connect to any type of network :')

And so yeah at this point if I can't at the very least get a whatever-wrt firmware (preferably a proper linux distro nowadays; not to say the *-wrt firmwares aren't a real OS but, y'know) on the device i just avoid them entirely since, well... it's all i can do at this point because even if there were baked in hardware-based backdoors i as an individual can't do much more than that.

Note to self: never buy any Korean hardware or software product.

/S