What the fuck?! I did not sign up to live in some third world shithole where I can't get first-world networking equipment. I do not want some piece of shit closed-source proprietary netgear ameritrash. FUCK! Give me back my god damn chinese routers!

Chinese citizens have more computing freedom than American citizens at this point. What the fuck happened to the land of the free?

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0cf8612b2e1e 11 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I doubt anything will be pulled from the market. This is instead notice to the companies that now is the time for a donation to the administration’s ballroom.

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anonym29 11 hours ago | parent [-]

Right now, the way this is currently worded, every single foreign-made consumer router has already been pulled from the market, and has to request permission to be reintroduced. The only consumer routers not currently affected are those that are either already purchased (some good, but won't last forever) or are American-made (overpriced, underpowered dogshit)

	▲	racingmars 10 hours ago \| parent [-]
		From the news release "What does this mean?" section: "This update to the Covered List does not prohibit the import, sale, or use of any existing device models the FCC previously authorized." So no, this does not pull all existing routers off the market. Anything that already got FCC approval remains approved and new stock may be imported and sold.

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vsgherzi 10 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I understand the anger but I wouldn't go as far as that last part... the GFW is the ultimate censorship tool. For the record I run tp-link aps

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ReptileMan 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

> I do not want some piece of shit closed-source proprietary netgear ameritrash.

So much different than the piece of shit closed-source proprietary netgear chinesium.

Consumer routers are shit full stop.

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0xy 11 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

The computing freedom = a plausibly deniable backdoor.

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-1389

	▲	supernetworks 8 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Another favorite, https://www.synacktiv.com/publications/cool-vulns-dont-live-... the router sniffed plaintext http to grab HTTP User agents to put them into a curl bash command line string. Nice RCE from the browser.

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mx7zysuj4xew 11 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Why wasn't anyone notified about this being in the works? What bulletins did I fail to notice. WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON HERE