To be honest, this is probably justified. My knee-jerk reaction was “oh look, USA in antagonizing everyone else again”, but consumer routers are a really significant security junction which historically has always been somewhat neglected. I only read a few sentences before the paywall stopped me, but sounds like they’ll whitelist any foreign manufacturers that are legitimate.
Yes, it’s gonna have corruption and bribes all over it… But on paper, it’s justified.
I hope things like hardware made by/for openwrt remain available, but it sounds like they will cease to be?
It seems like professional equipment will not be affected:
While the FCC’s Covered List makes it sound like the US is banning all “routers produced in a foreign country,” it’s defined a bit more narrowly than that. It’s specifically banning “consumer-grade routers” as defined in NIST Internal Report 8425A, which refers to ones “intended for residential use and can be installed by the customer.”
To be honest, this is probably justified. My knee-jerk reaction was “oh look, USA in antagonizing everyone else again”, but consumer routers are a really significant security junction which historically has always been somewhat neglected. I only read a few sentences before the paywall stopped me, but sounds like they’ll whitelist any foreign manufacturers that are legitimate.
Yes, it’s gonna have corruption and bribes all over it… But on paper, it’s justified.
What? Because companies from other countries are evil? What makes you think that companies in your own country are better?
Why does the country even matter?
It’s just another routine fascist strategy:
The vulnerability is coming from inside the house
I hope things like hardware made by/for openwrt remain available, but it sounds like they will cease to be?
My first thought was the risk of the us demanding us manufacturers include a backdoor
It sounds like the exemption for foreign companies is an option while they create plans for american manufacturing
It seems like professional equipment will not be affected:
That’s not reassuring. It sounds like they don’t want home users to be able to get any router they could manage themselves.