It's not getting enough attention that the Trump administration has banned the sale of ALL WiFi routers made outside of the US. It's one of the first steps required to control Americans' use of the Internet, to spy on what you're doing online, to suppress information they don't want you to see and to even turn off the Internet at their discretion.
This is looking increasingly like a trap.
old models still work..
openwrt.. the "linux" of router operating systems..
plan ahead while they still let you.
any hdware spy that Gov could require?
although the way this is worded, your precise meaning is a little unclear.
security down to the components on the board itself is such a deep rabbit hole to dive down. I mean how trustworthy or truly impartial are the chi-coms, in the end? They've been making all our shit for 40+ years now. How do we know they haven't backdoored the shit out of things they sell down at the component level? Some things you just can't know with any certainty in this world, sadly.
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