"Of course, nothing happens without a suitable conspiracy theory. In
this case, I must ask why the FBI insisted that everyone reset their
routers when only a few models are susceptible."

They insisted ? Fukum, I didn't do it. Hold on, there's a knock at the door....

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Don't worry, I shot them. Now, is this possibly the cause of my having trouble to get to certain sites ? These are mainly sites I have never been to before. Everything I normally use is alright, but anything new seems to time out and that is in more than one browser.

Maybe some DNSes got screwed up or something like that, but the places I frequent have a backup somewhere ? just a wild guess