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Germany (or rather DACH) has AVM, a German manufacturer that is making the "Fritz!Box" product line and supplied security updates to all affected routers they ever sold after somebody discovered and exploited a bug in the firmware to remotely call premium numbers via VoIP in various countries.

Their routers were also not affected by the KRACK WPA2 exploit last year.

AVM products cost a lot more than their competitors' but they are really worth their money.



I can agree with that, AVM Fritz!Box are also quite capable routers, the only problem I ever had was that it doesn't properly forward IPv6 ICMP.

It's 100% worth the extra cash getting an AVM over most ISP routers you get in germany.


Not affected by Krack? Is this the marketing mouth of AVM?


As KRACK is a client vulnerability, an access point shouldn't be vulnerable in the first place.




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