The US FCC router ban has updates: Now, the first products have been added to the exempted list – and it’s from Netgear, a company that has dedicated years to lobbying the federal government. The FCC also clarified that its router ban includes wireless hotspots (e.g. 5G hotspots), and the broad definition of a “router” could feasibly even include game consoles, phones, and simple range extenders. We dig through links within the ISP (Internet Service Provider) industry, including lobbying contributions, and find a path to what we think is long-term router subscriptions via “authorized” sources like ISPs. The risk of eventual government backdoors also prevails in such a situation. Conflicts of interest with Starlink also present concerns.
Oh that’s probably why they banned Chinese routers.
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And we’ll see this extend to other areas of computing as Chinese tech advances if US policy continues unabated. No RAM, no CPUs/GPUs.
The way things are going, the US will be banning electricity, metal tools, and fire over the next few years.
“From disrupting network connectivity to enabling local networking espionage and intellectual property theft, foreign-produced routers present additional and unacceptable risks to Americans.”
They should ban printers instead
embrace openwrt life, fuck for 5 hours and forget it for 10 years
And yet I can just build a fucking router with an old computer. Get fucked, FCC.
- https://opnsense.org/ for turnkey, minimal setup
- https://mikrotik.com/ if you want to tune everything and need a cli interface
Yes you can also put opnsense into firewall only mode and put it in front of a mikrotik if you really wanted to.
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Telling the Alibaba seller to hide the router in a shipment of dickpills.
I’m feeling more and more vindicated in my tendency to hoard old tech.
Router ban…?
The FCC banned the sale of all new consumer routers not produced in the US
I found a YouTube link in your post. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
