Of course they’re banning foreign routers. They want all Americans to have only routers with government backdoors. At this point, backdoor-free routers are a threat to ‘national security’.
This is why open source and open hardware is so important.
And open firmware, especially for routers.
This does essentially mean no Wi-Fi or mobile radios as they’re pretty much all binary blobs.
still doesn’t stop for supply chain attacks, but still a better alternative to whatever shit they’re going to ramrod into “US made” tech.
It’s the US. Anyone surprised?
Well no, they tend to copy a lot from China these days.
except badly.
Or don’t even try too. Wish they tried to copy infrastructure improvements or high speed rail. All we get is more money to corporations to do absolutely nothing
i have my frustration with the Chinese state appartus, but the one thing you can’t say about them is that they’re incompetent.
we can get into talks about whether or not the incompetence the modern american governance mechanisms are illusory in service of kleptocracy or not, but ultimately, the American state apparatus is following the same pattern of dynastic rise and fall you see across the nothern hemisphere for the last 16000 years.
i just hope that for FUCKING once a group will rehash the salt and iron debates and pick salt, like GODDAMMIT why always with the imperialism!?!?
Wealth. That’s why. It’s money. Simple greed. That is why iron. That is why Imperialism
First as a tragedy, then as a farce.
They don’t copy the part where they execute billionaires, unfortunately https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2011-07-23/china-executes-14-billionaires-in-8-years-culture-news-reports
Although, if you’re an influential billionaire you don’t get executed but get disappeared for some time, like jack ma, giving the general feeling that they want to control billionaires and not just get rid of them
With our current dotard leadership it’s surprising they haven’t banned routers completely.
Even they probably realize they need them for porn.
Every accusation of them is an admission of guilt.
So stop buying any US made hardware.
This tells me any equipment that is classified as acceptable by these requirements is immediately suspect, and should not be permitted to connect to, or communicate with, equipment you need to trust.
I’m well versed in the CALEA capabilities of DOCSIS equipment, hence my comment.
There is an exemption for products that the Department of Defense or the Department of Homeland Security have granted “Conditional Approval” after finding these devices do not pose such unacceptable risks. Router makers can apply to the FCC to get on the approved list.
Wow, what an insane coincidence it’s exactly those two departments and no one else. Golly, I wonder why. (Edit: To clarify, if you’re going to do this stupid, posturing bullshit, I “get” the DoD because of the NSA, and DHS has CISA. Just really no one else? Seems like consolidating more control.)
Any word on what the fee for that application will be?
So like what router should I be using that isn’t going to be spying on me? Been feeling it’s time for an upgrade my current ASUS router was a higher end model when I bought it but it is like 8 or 9 years old now
Wait we did what? Cisco, the Food Distribution Company?
Sysco is food, Cisco, as in San Fran_cisco_, is the tech company.
San Francisco really let us down from there days of the hippies.
Now being the harbingers of Destruction and what do you call it, slavery.
No, it’s that guy from Deep Space Nine.
No, it’s that thong th-thong thong thong guy.
No, the FCC no longer allows the import of music by Sisqó.
Welp, so much for OpenWRT on cheap devices designed for routing (even though flashing the firmware to install it probably got rid of any backdoors anyway); now we’ll have to resort to OPNSense on overkill PC hardware.
Isnt tp link or Deco a US company?
TP-Link is Chinese.
There is an element of hypocrisy in all this because American intelligence agencies were previously caught intercepting Cisco-made routers on their way to customers and updating their firmware to deploy espionage tools.
It’s not hypocrisy to try to spy on others while preventing them from spying on you.
Do as I say not as I do… Or some shit.
