[1/3] https://gizmodo.com/fcc-bans-all-new-routers-not-made-in-america-2000737176
https://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#10_July_2013_(Retired_FISA_Judge_speaks_out_against_secret_courts)
The FCC has banned importation of foreign-made routers, except for models already approved. This addresses a real problem, but the supposed solution addresses only a part of it. When a router is made in a country other than the US, it's possible that that country's government has imposed spyware
Classic Stallman ethnocentrism, all foreign governments are bad, trying to offend "Americans" while the US government is trying to protect them.
Wouldn't it read better if they said they are banning routers that don't include US government spyware?
Has anyone heard a single thing the #Snowden reported and was persecuted?
Has anything changed since then, except for maybe silently passing laws to make spying more "legal" than it was?
Most routers I've seen, either for sale or provided by ISPs have some version of old linux in them or at least some unix fork, mostly really old stuff. Whether the source has been tampered with or is built on the original FOSS published it is much harder to know unless you build and install your own.
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