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> OpenWRT is pretty great at offering features and security for consumer devices

That's a misconception. Nobody actually cares about security for packages that are not in the default install. For example, the initscript for sstp-client disables certificate validation unconditionally, see https://github.com/openwrt/packages/issues/25212

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It at least offers more security than the usual alternative on a consumer router of the manufacturer's OS (i.e. something updated once a decade running linux 2.6 with GPL-violating unreleased patches so you can't update it yourself, all written in C by the contractor that bid the lowest).

If others think this is in jest, there are recent TP-Link routers with 2.6 kernel and Broadcom.

Good job on raising that issue. TIL SSTP.

> Nobody actually cares about security for packages that are not in the default install.

Probably an exaggeration, but it's clear there are some packages that are insecure out-the-box.

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