YiddishMcSquidish comments on The FCC decided that all foreign-made consumer-grade Internet routers are prohibited from receiving FCC authorization and are therefore prohibited from being imported for use or sale in the US.

[–] YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 19 points 7 months ago (7 children)

Unintentionally shutting down ai data centers. Lol, we know this will only be selectively enforced!

[–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 16 points 7 months ago (6 children)

Well it does say consumer-grade. Not sure what the reasoning there is, as backdoors in enterprise equipment would be much worse for national security

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[–] Boiglenoight@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago

Producers of consumer-grade routers that receive Conditional Approval from DoW or DHS can continue to receive FCC equipment authorizations. Interested applicants are encouraged to submit applications to conditional-approvals@fcc.gov

A very speculative, cynical interpretation: something of value will be exchanged for the privilege of conditional approval.

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[–] TrollTrollrolllol@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

enterprise equipment manufacturers have already paid the bribe.

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[–] ChaoticEntropy@feddit.uk 1 point 7 months ago (2 children)

Enterprise grade equipment comes with entire teams dedicated to securing it, with various overlapping services intended to identify and mitigate vulnerabilities. Along with enterprise level agreements around usage and support.

Consumer grade is just fire and forget, you're on your own.

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