floofloof@lemmy.ca to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 days agoThe FCC decided that all foreign-made consumer-grade Internet routers are prohibited from receiving FCC authorization and are therefore prohibited from being imported for use or sale in the US.infosec.exchangeexternal-linkmessage-square131fedilinkarrow-up1765arrow-down15
arrow-up1760arrow-down1external-linkThe FCC decided that all foreign-made consumer-grade Internet routers are prohibited from receiving FCC authorization and are therefore prohibited from being imported for use or sale in the US.infosec.exchangefloofloof@lemmy.ca to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 days agomessage-square131fedilink
minus-squaresome_kind_of_guy@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·3 days agoIf I read this right it goes beyond the cheap no-name Chinese stuff that we hopefully all know to avoid by now. This would prevent US companies from outsourcing manufacture to foreign countries, which pretty much all companies do at this point
minus-squarerumba@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·3 days agoThat would keep routers.ca from reselling Temu routers, net win. I just hope that part of this doesn’t include mandatory backdoors for US agencies. This might be the start of the great firewall of the US
minus-squarerumba@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·3 days agoif that ends up being the case, us linux nuts can start making and selling our own routers! Side Hustle!
minus-squareHanrahan@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·3 days agountil that has you labeled as a terrorist
minus-squarerumba@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·3 days agoThey’ll nail us to the wall for using lemmy before they nail us for making routers :)
If I read this right it goes beyond the cheap no-name Chinese stuff that we hopefully all know to avoid by now. This would prevent US companies from outsourcing manufacture to foreign countries, which pretty much all companies do at this point
That would keep routers.ca from reselling Temu routers, net win.
I just hope that part of this doesn’t include mandatory backdoors for US agencies. This might be the start of the great firewall of the US
it will
if that ends up being the case, us linux nuts can start making and selling our own routers!
Side Hustle!
until that has you labeled as a terrorist
They’ll nail us to the wall for using lemmy before they nail us for making routers :)