USA bans all new routers for consumers
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Re: USA bans all new routers for consumers
#2If you take qualcomm (tplink and netgear use this for example), only standards development and frontier RF r&d happen mostly in the US. Most of the RFIC, RTL+firmware+software is mostly from their GCCs in India. Fab in TSMC. Assembly in China.
So what's the plan here.
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#3Do I wanna know why? I don't wanna know why.
Re: USA bans all new routers for consumers
#4The ban also includes a 2027 cutoff date for security updates to any unapproved routers. Given the long replacement cycle on home routers, I think the bigger security risk will end up being the millions of people using routers with unpatched security vulnerabilities…
Re: USA bans all new routers for consumers
#5Related discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47495344
Re: USA bans all new routers for consumers
#6[dupe] Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47495344
Re: USA bans all new routers for consumers
#7If you take qualcomm (tplink and netgear use this for example), only standards development and frontier RF r&d happen mostly in the US. Most of the RFIC, RTL+firmware+software is mostly from their GCCs in India. Fab in TSMC. Assembly in China. So what's the plan here.
The plan? Government control through "conditional approval" process and making it more costly to own a router than rent one from a consumer internet provider.
Re: USA bans all new routers for consumers
#8Do I wanna know why? I don't wanna know why.
"from intelligence agencies"
Pretty much, foreign adversaries have been using American home internet for years sounds like? This is a baseless claim fyi, I'm just trying to connect the dots.
Re: USA bans all new routers for consumers
#9If you take qualcomm (tplink and netgear use this for example), only standards development and frontier RF r&d happen mostly in the US. Most of the RFIC, RTL+firmware+software is mostly from their GCCs in India. Fab in TSMC. Assembly in China. So what's the plan here.
The plan? Government control through "conditional approval" process and making it more costly to own a router than rent one from a consumer internet provider.
But....your ISP also has to procure a router from somewhere. Or are they just going to slap a sticker that says "verizon" on it and say it was made in the USA now?
Re: USA bans all new routers for consumers
#10The ban also includes a 2027 cutoff date for security updates to any unapproved routers. Given the long replacement cycle on home routers, I think the bigger security risk will end up being the millions of people using routers with unpatched security vulnerabilities…
This is about the dumbest thing I have ever heard