The Federal Communications Commission has released a notice today designating any consumer routers manufactured outside the US as a security risk.
    • tyler@programming.devEnglish
      10·
      2 个月前

      But how? America doesn’t make routers. There’s no American routers to put backdoors in!

      • plateee@piefed.socialEnglish
        28·
        2 个月前

        That’ll be part of the “concessions” that foreign made routers make to get approval.

        Why the fuck else would the department of defense need to weigh in?

        • greybeard@feddit.onlineEnglish
          3·
          2 个月前

          It also allows the DoD and DHS to collect application fees which gives them dark money to play with outside the oversight of Congress.

      • Lemmayng@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        2 个月前

        Doesn’t have to be a hardware backdoor. Router manufacturers can easily push software updates that contain said “backdoor” for the low, low price of licking Trump’s backdoor.