BrkdncrThe FCC Just Banned the Sale of New Wi-Router Models Made Outside US
civWhen filing for an exemption, the company needs to submit a specific plan for how they’re going to move manufacturing to the US 💀
roofuskitNo way tech companies won’t manipulate this to their benefit right? Gonna be having routers shipped in decoy packages. I’m not buying backdoor infested mess they’re gonna peddle at an unreasonable price cause there can be no outside competition.
I’m in Ohio. I wonder how hard it’d be to drive to Canada, pick up a router, and drive back?
Or hell…maybe just drive to Canada. I’m sure I can find a job and a place to live, right? Just go to a Tim Hortons and say “Hey, I’m gonna work hete now, because fuck America!” and Canadians are like, legally obligated to be nice. I’m sure it’ll all work out, as long as I share some donuts.
The hardest part will be getting used to pink money.
I mean, seriously Canada? You a big fan of monopoly money?
thisbenzingringwhat if th government prohibits your ISP from initilizing your routers MAC address because its not one on an approved list?
Then make it lie. Spoofing is a thing that sometimes works!
So the FCC won’t let me be, or let me be me, so let me see…they try to shut down the internet on my pc, but it would be so empty without me!
Made me chuckle in these dark times. Cheers!
teftEvery broadband connection I’ve had looks at the mac address of whatever is behind the modem, the modem essentially passes it through.
No it doesn’t. Go learn about networking, the OSI model, and ARP tables if you believe that.
Be less of an asshole, it’s free. I’ve been sniffing packets from cable modems since the 90s. I even remember the mac address of my first network card - 00a0cc52cac7, because mediaone gave out persistent hostnames based on your mac address before they were bought by at&t. I once putty’d into my machine from Katmandu just because I could. Incidentally, when I called at&t support to find out if this would continue, their support rep had no idea what I was talking about, and after I mentioned mac addresses, he suggested I call apple.
It’s not being an asshole. It’s correcting misinformation. Sniffing packets doesn’t mean you understand networking as evidenced by the fact you think the modem is broadcasting your computer’s MAC address.
Just go read up on networking and you’ll realize that wouldn’t make sense.
Just go read up on networking and you’ll realize that wouldn’t make sense.
That right there is you being an asshole. If that’s who you are, that’s fine, but at least be honest about it. I know I’m an asshole, so you’re not hurting my feelings any by turning it back on me.
If you would like to not be an asshole, a good start would be to accept that you don’t know everything, and just because your experience differs from mine doesn’t mean I’m wrong. It’s fully possible what I observed between 30 and 15 years ago was unusual, or maybe it was common then but isn’t now- and if you had led with that, I might have conceded that you may at least have more current knowledge than I. It’s also possible I didn’t explain myself clearly enough, and we’re just misunderstanding each other- a layer 8 problem, if you will.
you think the modem is broadcasting your computer’s MAC address.
Well, considering I was seeing arp packets from mac addresses of every other machine on my segment pretty much continuously, what conclusion would you come to?
But will crossing the border with it be a hassle? I’ve had issues before with pills and alcohol
Given Ubiquiti’s Russian connections, and TP Link’s Chinese connections, this honestly isn’t surprising.
curious (well not really) that it is only consumer grade. nothing about business grade, of even a deliniation as to where “pro-sumer” falls. if this is a big brother situation then the consumer only thing makes perfect sense. it also drives users back to isp supplied hardware which means more rental fees, so more money CEOs.
Won’t be surprised if the ISP provided hardware is going to be the only allowed stuff. For you and me, not for the gov’t or companies though. They specifically only mentioned “consumer grade” and also specifically state that products sold to or used by the federal gov’t are not restricted at all. Seems like that carve-out is backwards if these things are such big “security risks”…
Oh no. What will we do.
Oh yeah. just build one in a white box.
AatubePainting a target on himself
put it after the white box, then lock all the ports down.
I did this 20 years ago, I can do it again…
Obvious move toward even more of a surveillance state. My current router is not US made and my next one definitely won’t be. Buying American made is buying a little piece of fascism.
Rimuas far as I know, a similar ban on new models of drones still stands after several months.
Same goes for EV’s, mobile phones etc. The US is one of the most limited countries in the world with regards to choice.
Interesting addition to the “free market” system we all just love so, so much.
Its obvious its for spying. Until there is a telescope stuck up every non rich citizens ass the US government will not give up.
People should rewatch that interview with the creator of Lavabit and how the feds forced him into a shutdown because he wouldn’t play their spy games.
He is still not allowed to talk about all the details of it either. “What about my first amendment rights” he said in the interview.
You know, just things in the land of the free™
Do you have a link to it? I don’t think I’ve ever seen it, so idk what to look for.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=spW0q-g2BxU&pp=ygUZTGF2YWJp…
I’m sorry its a YouTube link I would link invidious or something similar but man I can’t ever seem to get the links to those to reliably work consistently.
Lavabit's Ladar Levison on Snowden, Why He Shut Down, and How to Beat the NSA
No worries, those services are pretty hit or miss for me as well.
Thanks for the link, I’ll watch this later today :)
paraphrandBrendan Carr is such a dummy!
Just to remind you as the surveillance state crawls further up between your kidneys that Epstein used a free gmail account hosted on US servers and nobody did dick about him.
JackbyDevDoes anyone have any suggestions on a router I should buy before this comes into effect? Would prefer one that is open source or can run an open OS.
Can a raspberry pi be used to make a router?
NotamoosenA pi can definitely be used, but you may get much better performance for a similar price getting a refurbished pc, adding a second nic, and installing something like opnsense.
Look into banana pi r3 or r4. Both should be on openwrt stable now.
this isn’t for everyone. if you don’t know what a subnet or gateway are then this isn’t for you.
get yourself a micro firewall appliance. something with an N100 Intel. should have around 5 network ports, you’ll only really need 2 if you’re just hooking up internet.
you’ll also want to get an unmanaged network switch. this will take your one port on your router and split it into 8,12,24,48, etc.
you’ll also want to install opnsense or pfsense on your router, configure it correctly, and maintain updates going forward.
think of the network switch like a coax splitter on a TV antenna. it takes one port and allows many devices to connect.
in opnsense each port on the router can be setup as a completely different network subnet. this is actually the default and the easiest to configure.
for me personally, I have one port for regular network access. one for secure no internet access (things like cameras, IOT, smart devices). and one for a work network so all my work devices connect directly to the internet and bypass all my other infrastructure.
this gives me flexibility for all the devices on my network, but for most people is overkill.
you can set opnsense up to use all ports under one network, but it’s kind of a PITA from my experience.
*Unless you pay tribute to the authoritarian government.
Katherine 🪴So just buy in a commerce site in Europe and import it
This will benefit a few specific big brands that have the lawyers to figure out the spaghetti mess of free trade agreements and origin rules.
So ship all the parts here and assemble them here… foreign companies have been doing this for decades.
I’m sure some moron thinks this will “create jobs”. I’ll let you guess who the moron is.
This is about surveillance, not jobs.
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