return2ozma@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 23 hours agoThe US bans all new foreign-made network routerswww.engadget.comexternal-linkmessage-square143fedilinkarrow-up1620arrow-down16
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minus-squareTriumph@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up52·22 hours agoIt’s so they can more reliably distribute their own backdoors.
minus-squaretyler@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·22 hours agoBut how? America doesn’t make routers. There’s no American routers to put backdoors in!
minus-squareLemmyng@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·10 hours agoDoesn’t have to be a hardware backdoor. Router manufacturers can easily push software updates that contain said “backdoor” for the low, low price of licking Trump’s backdoor.
minus-squareplateee@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up27·22 hours agoThat’ll be part of the “concessions” that foreign made routers make to get approval. Why the fuck else would the department of defense need to weigh in?
minus-squaregreybeard@feddit.onlinelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·11 hours agoIt also allows the DoD and DHS to collect application fees which gives them dark money to play with outside the oversight of Congress.
It’s so they can more reliably distribute their own backdoors.
But how? America doesn’t make routers. There’s no American routers to put backdoors in!
Doesn’t have to be a hardware backdoor. Router manufacturers can easily push software updates that contain said “backdoor” for the low, low price of licking Trump’s backdoor.
That’ll be part of the “concessions” that foreign made routers make to get approval.
Why the fuck else would the department of defense need to weigh in?
It also allows the DoD and DHS to collect application fees which gives them dark money to play with outside the oversight of Congress.