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Fran1kRizzo
Jun 19, 2026Aspirant
Have you seen this about Netgear RS Routers? Pretty interesting and maybe scary or even dangerous!
Supposedly there is a Backdoor to our Rs Series routers by sending magic packets? This makes me nervous as I work and live behind a RS700 in my house. It sounds pretty serious? Gamers Nexus "The...
Fran1kRizzo
Jun 20, 2026Aspirant
I posted about some flaws in the RS series of routers and its locked to no replies? Is this common?
My post was about "There's a Secret Backdoor in Netgear" Routers, ft. Wendell of Level1 Techs and Gamers Nexus"
FURRYe38
Jun 20, 2026Guru - Experienced User
Please wait for NG to respond to this. I passes this to NG for reivew.
Lets not fly off the handle bars on this.