Can you audit your CPU? Can you audit your mainboard, which was probably assembled in China and has some microcontrollers with firmware installed in China? Mikrotik is made in Europe in a democratic state.
I cannot. But this is another software stack, another CPU and another mainboard with DMA access.
It's a big bucket of additional weak links in my chain of security security. The whattabouttery in these replies isn't s good approach. It only takes one component to get hacked. More than doubling your surface area isn't something to do lightly.
It's a big bucket of additional weak links in my chain of security security. The whattabouttery in these replies isn't s good approach. It only takes one component to get hacked. More than doubling your surface area isn't something to do lightly.