Mashable: The confusing U.S. router ban, explained: Which routers are banned?. “The Federal Communications Commission on Monday added all foreign-manufactured consumer routers to its Covered List — the federal government’s running blacklist of communications equipment deemed a national security threat. The move effectively bans the sale of new WiFi routers made outside the country. The ban […]

Both the U.S. and #Canada are trying to escape the consequences of their actions. Canada chose own-goal vassalage to the U.S (so easily foreseen decades ago) and is now struggling with the consequences.

The U.S. is...<gestures widely>. The FCC order blanket-banning foreign #routers is one strategy: Surprise!, the world’s greatest arrogance machine pivoted to something unglamorous (they might have gone with “Trump Internet”).

RE: https://mastodon.social/@eff/116296389981378776

This is what I was talking about last Monday. It's a big deal.

Only Starlink is not hit by the ban. Starlink would be a Elon Musk company. Naturally.

#routers #computing #networking #wifi #FuckTrump #FuckMAGA

So the last couple weeks have been nuts on keeping up with the news....but here's another that might have slipped under your radar and will effect basically everyone in the US. Your home router has basically been declared a security risk.

https://blog.ppb1701.com/all-this-has-happened-before

#blog #routers #fcc #networking #security #policy #geopolitics #selfhosting #isp #userhostile

I love the headline : « Country that put backdoors into Cisco #routers to spy on world bans foreign routers »  

« There is an element of hypocrisy in all this because American intelligence agencies were previously caught intercepting Cisco-made routers on their way to customers and updating their firmware to deploy #espionage tools. »

› https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/24/fcc_foreign_routers/

#USA #USPol #Privacy #Trumpism

“Can I buy American? Netgear and Google Nest and Amazon Eero and Ubiquiti are US brands...”

“The FCC isn’t banning #routers from foreign companies, it’s banning routers made in foreign countries — which is practically all routers. Every one of those US companies produces their routers in Asia, the same way Apple makes all but half a Mac overseas. Even Elon Musk’s Starlink, the one company that does seem to make routers in the US, also produces hardware in Vietnam and didn’t answer our emails asking what percentage is made domestically.”

https://www.theverge.com/tech/899906/fcc-router-ban-march-2026-explainer

The correct way to run a headline for this story. The reg does not disappoint

#uspol #routers #surveillance #privacy #nationalsecurity #cybersecurity #infosec #cisco #theregister

I wonder if @turris is affected by this decision:

https://www.engadget.com/big-tech/the-us-bans-all-new-foreign-made-network-routers-223622966.html

"The US bans all new foreign-made #network #routers"

It's made in #Europe and comes with a fully #OpenSource software. Not just that, but my 10 years old router still receives regular updates.

My Chinese spy router aka TP-link is failing so I just ordered a new router from GL.iNet. I like that it runs OpenWRT software and can operate as a hub for network attached storage and do all kinds of other stuff I'll probably never try. Looking forward to setting it up.

#routers

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