Vee18h ago

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.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/03/trump-fcc-prohibits-import-and-sale-of-new-wi-fi-routers-made-outside-us/

FCC imposes sweeping ban on foreign-made routers, affecting all new models

Trump admin to decide which router makers get exemptions from FCC import ban.

Ars Technica
Show threadlemgandi17h ago

@VeroniqueB99

Hm. I have never used the stock software on any of my routers. Does it really matter where the hardware was made?

Show threadGabriel Adrian Samfira

@lemgandi @VeroniqueB99

Yup. If you control the hw, you can embed malware within firmware (efi for example), which will survive a reinstall or just have your own minimal secondary system like intel management engine (but less bloated).

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