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The VergeThe US government just banned consumer routers made outside the US https://www.theverge.com/news/899172/fcc-foreign-router-ban
The Orange Theme@verge @octothorpe No airplanes. No healthcare. No computers. Well, the future was fun, I guess.
Nazo@theorangetheme @verge @octothorpe We had two visions of possible futures: dystopian nightmare in which people die left and right and no one hardly even notices that they did or an optimistic future where tech is used to solve crises and improve lives.
Every single person we put into power really loved the idea of being the bad guys in the dystopian nightmare, so here we are.
We had Star Trek and we had Mad Max. They picked Mad Max and we gave them the power to do it.
Yora@nazokiyoubinbou People went to elections to vote for Mad Max.
This is what the people voted for.
This is what the people voted for.
Angus McIntyre@verge Isn’t that like … all of them?
Lightfighter@angusm All but the one your ISP leases you. Which they can extensively monitor.
Parth Parikh@verge great initiative
Sassinake!VPNs for sure on the list of freedoms to ban.
they're trying to ban anonymity completely. Basically privacy.
Which means instead of a private citizen, we all become subjects, or 'corporate property'.
That last meaning your boss can fire you for fapping to online porn, even from the privacy of your own bed.
or calling MAGA, stupid
Mark Crocker@verge my knee-jerk reaction was that it would be much better if they just required (all?) manufacturers to allow replacing the firmware, so people could use something like OpenWrt https://openwrt.org/ ... then I thought it through a little bit 🤔
I just wish these legislators would think about solutions other than bans or locked down commercial monopolies.
Unfortunately, even requiring open, auditable, standards compliant software won't prevent hidden firmware or supply chain attacks 🙁
Richard W. Woodley ELBOWS UP 🇨🇦🌹🚴♂️📷 🗺️Is that photo supposed to be a typical consumer router ?
mjdxp
TJC-
crispy branzino ☭ (sold out forever)@verge bpi router board conveniently absent from the list
mahadevank@verge First we thought America was America, then we realized its more Russia-ish, now its sounding China-ish as well
Terrible.
Jigme Datse@verge Isn't that basically all of them? Well fuck.
François @Jura@verge Palantir has a plan to manufacture them I suppose.
Tonanio 🇪🇺 🇵🇹 🇺🇦 🇵🇱@verge Weird, the previous post mentioned something about Russia, and I've read this post as "Russia government..."
Strange reality you're living in...
Strange reality you're living in...
Micheal