a glance at their artist image and bio should be enough to persuade even the least skeptical observer.
At least we know the article was written by a human.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperial_boomerang
Edit: to be clear, OP's article does not at any point claim that these are American government-operated drones, so this isn't really a good example of the imperial boomerang effect. I just wanted to point people to established reading on the topic you brought up.
I mostly rely on built-in "scheduled send" features these days, but in the past (and possibly future, can't remember!) I've used Time Cave and been happy with it.
If your router isn't even a Linksys router, then it's most likely a false positive result and can be safely ignored. If you want to be extra sure, you could attempt to actually exploit the vulnerability with routersploit and see whether you get anywhere.
In general, the fix for a vulnerability in an end-user network device is some combination of "update the firmware" and "disable the vulnerable feature".
The article talks a little about it. It's more of an unwind+rewind cycle:
It makes sense to me. I hope it catches on!