It’s not clear what makes Netgear’s currently foreign-made routers safer than, say, an Amazon Eero 7 or a Google Nest WiFi Pro.
This is all evidence that it’s not really about safety. It’s a clumsy attempt to strongarm tech companies into setting up factories in the USA. It may also be an attempt to create an environment in which it’s easier to install US government backdoors on every home router.
This is all evidence that it’s not really about safety. It’s a clumsy attempt to strongarm tech companies into setting up factories in the USA. It may also be an attempt to create an environment in which it’s easier to install US government backdoors on every home router.
Evidently not since Netgear has zero factories in the USA and plans to bring zero factories to the USA in the future.
It’s this one.
As well as a clumsy attempt to thwart foreign back doors. Unless they’ve paid for them. Or are Israel.
But how hilarious it is that Google and Amazon, already bending the knee to the emperor, did not get a pass.