The US government just banned consumer routers made outside the US https://www.theverge.com/news/899172/fcc-foreign-router-ban

[mcrocker@indieweb.social]

@verge my knee-jerk reaction was that it would be much better if they just required (all?) manufacturers to allow replacing the firmware, so people could use something like OpenWrt https://openwrt.org/ ... then I thought it through a little bit

I just wish these legislators would think about solutions other than bans or locked down commercial monopolies.

Unfortunately, even requiring open, auditable, standards compliant software won't prevent hidden firmware or supply chain attacks

[the5thcolumnist@mstdn.ca]

@verge

Is that photo supposed to be a typical consumer router ?

[mjdxp@labyrinth.zone]

@verge we're living in a neverending onion article

[zamunda@mastodon.social]

@verge In another word buy American

[tjc_2@mastodon.social]

@verge
Tell it to Spectrum.

[nimbius666@comp.lain.la]

@verge bpi router board conveniently absent from the list

[mahadevank@mastodon.social]

@verge First we thought America was America, then we realized its more Russia-ish, now its sounding China-ish as well

Terrible.

[jigmedatse@social.openpsychology.net]

@verge@mastodon.social Isn't that basically all of them? Well fuck.

[francoisprague@mastodon.social]

@verge Palantir has a plan to manufacture them I suppose.

[tonanio@mastodon.social]

@verge Weird, the previous post mentioned something about Russia, and I've read this post as "Russia government..."
Strange reality you're living in...

[megalodong35@mastodon.social]

@verge they just want the entire population to be on TP link. One of the most easily exploited routers that exist