Or, guess what, the next thing will be that all new domestically produced routers will require ID verification before they'll connect.

They don't want to, they already have it and just don't want people to be able to avoid it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communications_Assistance_for_Law_Enforcement_Act

requiring that telecommunications carriers and manufacturers of telecommunications equipment modify and design their equipment, facilities, and services to ensure that they have built-in capabilities for targeted surveillance

We don't lol

Electronics manufacture of any kind has been heavily outsourced since at least 1995.

Time to dust off the old US Robotics 14.4k sportster.

It depends on their version the fcc is considering "manufactured". If they mean it in a literal sense, there's pretty much just starlink. If they mean it can be an American company but put together overseas then there's plenty, like Netgear and Linksys.

I think the last time that was the case, they were called modems and made by US Robotics.

Shortly after the chips and components started coming from Japan and eventually Taiwan.

doesn't cover ISP or commercial equipment

The foreign backdoors will stay for critical infrastructure

Honestly it feels like they get their Intel from memes.

And it’s going to suck BALLS

$150 will get you a mini PC that you can run OPNsense on. Hopefully they don't ban WiFi access points next.

They bulit the bribe into the law: "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."

The unwritten part is where Trump gets a free gold plated golf cart or some other stupid shit to sweeten the deal.

Its grift allllll the way down.

I hate to say anything that would defend any of this, but cheap Chinese routers are very prone to security issues. There's a guy that has a youtube channel built arond taking apart and reverse engineering all kids of electroncis. He's found some pretty bad stuff in generic routers, static logins, telemetry sent home, remote executable code in the admin portal while not logged in.

I agree there's a lot more here they hope to gain, and that those gains are their primary objective, but there are some real issues from consumer network electronics.

In the Age of Technology and AI, it does make sense to have any manufacturing operations in house than overseas. Ofc if there were countries we could trust that would be onpar as well, but the U.S. pretty much shit the bed on alliances.

ISP provided equipment is also made outside of the US. This affects way more than just telecom stuff

Yes, everything trump does is a request for a bribe.

they want all of that “spying on their own people” power for themselves.

My assumption as well, after after the video release in the Guthrie case, we know objectively that every device with a microphone or camera and a wireless connection is spying on us and feeding the data to the US government without a warrant too.

Yup. That's basically what happened with TikTok.

Remember when conservatives claimed to support smaller government?

I only remember when conservatives lied everytime they opened their mouths.

I mean... "Small government" Republicans were always demonstrably lying, as far back as any of them have been alive. Every one of them just wanted to shift money from things that support people to the pockets of their donors.

How about the bit where they say home routers have to be approved by the DHS or the "Department of War"? This is not normal.

Dude don’t give them ideas, I live here

A promise of it not the actual router.

That deals with the need for a WiFi access point, but not the main router functionality. Another approach would be a low-power PC running OPNsense or PFsense with a WiFi card repurposed as an access point. Or, if the new policy concerns only routers and not access points, a PC for the router plus a dedicated WiFi access point (some device that is not capable of being a router).

Lol nice

But you can't run encryption on it. So that means no WEP, no WPA, no SSL, TLS, VPN, etc.

So yes, while you could run your own wireless access point, it doesn't solve the main requirement for most people which is privacy.

But that would be a sensible approch and strengthen the consumer. Not in the interest of the oligarchy.

A nice thought. But the Great Unwashed Masses do not care. They want a Quick Start Guide that just says "Plug it in" and no other steps required. They want the black box because they don't want to learn and understand.

And that attitude is less about the oligarchy and a lot more about all lazy people.

Sorry, are you expecting the government, which is owned and controlled by the ruling class, to make legal changes which would go against their own interests? Haven't you been paying attention?

If you want change, there's only one way for us to get it, and it's through a social revolution.

The USA is doing an impressive job of sanctioning the USA.

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