Caroline Sommerlind πΈπͺ
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.
Angus McIntyre@verge Isnβt that like β¦ all of them?
Lightfighter@angusm All but the one your ISP leases you. Which they can extensively monitor.
Parth Parikh@verge great initiative
Sassinake! α βͺ β© βVPNs 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 π€
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 π
Richard W. Woodley ELBOWS UP π¨π¦πΉπ΄ββοΈπ· πΊοΈIs that photo supposed to be a typical consumer router ?
mjdxp
TJC-
crispy branzino β (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 πͺπΊ π΅πΉ πΊπ¦ π΅π±@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