Mastodawn

Almost exactly four months ago, I wrote about how the Trump administration was preparing to ban TP-Link routers, citing the company's alleged links to China. Now, the FCC has decided to ban *all* new models of foreign-made routers, even though many U.S.-made routers are also full of security flaws.

https://this.weekinsecurity.com/banning-tp-link-wont-save-america-from-its-own-terrible-cybersecurity/

Banning TP-Link won't save America from its own terrible cybersecurity

TP-Link routers face a ban in the U.S. over the company's alleged links to China, but shoddy cybersecurity is the real insider threat to the United States.

~this week in security~

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Paul Chambers🚧1d ago

@zackwhittaker Call me cynical, but I wonder which Mar-A-Lago member is the new owner of a future US-based router manufacturing company with a near future IPO?

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Oliver Schafeld

»One exception to the general absence of US-made routers is the newer Starlink WiFi router. Starlink is part of Elon Musk's company SpaceX.
The company says the Starlink routers are made in Texas.«

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c74787w149zo

Bingo!

US bans new foreign-made consumer internet routers

There are almost no major brands of internet routers that are manufactured in the US.