return2ozma@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 13 hours agoThe US bans all new foreign-made network routerswww.engadget.comexternal-linkmessage-square76fedilinkarrow-up1392arrow-down13
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minus-squarePhoenix3875@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up61·8 hours agoSo consumer grade routers are a security risk, but not ISP switches or server routers? That’s the opposite of what a state level actor would look for.
minus-squaretidderuuf@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·13 minutes agoIs it? Because I just saw them available on Amazon and Alibaba. I think I even saw it on Walmart a few weeks ago too.
minus-squareferret@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·7 hours agoI mean, it’s kind of old news that these consumer routers make up the majority of bot nets, although I doubt requiring them to be US-made will change much.
minus-square8oow3291d@feddit.dklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-25 minutes agoAs I read it, they are scared of the Chinese Communist Party having an “official” back door built in. Not run-of-the-mill criminal bot-nets.
So consumer grade routers are a security risk, but not ISP switches or server routers? That’s the opposite of what a state level actor would look for.
Isn’t Huawei already banned?
Is it? Because I just saw them available on Amazon and Alibaba. I think I even saw it on Walmart a few weeks ago too.
Brother it is class war so
I mean, it’s kind of old news that these consumer routers make up the majority of bot nets, although I doubt requiring them to be US-made will change much.
As I read it, they are scared of the Chinese Communist Party having an “official” back door built in. Not run-of-the-mill criminal bot-nets.