The surprising order means any new Wi-Fi router models sold in the country must be US-made, or receive an exemption from the Pentagon or Homeland Security Department.
They’re gonna tell you this is the only way to be sure that routers don’t contain a backdoor. They’re gonna tell themselves this is the only way to be sure that routers do contain a backdoor.
Domestic spying good foreign spying bad
It can be both.
Oh no. What will we do.
Oh yeah. just build one in a white box.
I did this 20 years ago, I can do it again…
Painting a target on himself
Put it before the white box, then wireguard or ygg out to a vps. Fuck 'em.
does this support wireless, aka Wi-Fi? I can’t tell from a ~1 minute skim
Yes. Linux can (usually though not always) drive a wifi card as an access point.
If there are drivers for your card, yes.
Just to remind you as the surveillance state crawls further up between your kidneys that Epstein used a free gmail account hosted on US servers and nobody did dick about him.
Bro was dead ass talking about diddling kids on main in plaintext and they say they need to ban encryption to catch criminals.
Same goes for EV’s, mobile phones etc. The US is one of the most limited countries in the world with regards to choice.
So much freedom
No way tech companies won’t manipulate this to their benefit right? Gonna be having routers shipped in decoy packages. I’m not buying backdoor infested mess they’re gonna peddle at an unreasonable price cause there can be no outside competition.
I’m in Ohio. I wonder how hard it’d be to drive to Canada, pick up a router, and drive back?
Or hell…maybe just drive to Canada. I’m sure I can find a job and a place to live, right? Just go to a Tim Hortons and say “Hey, I’m gonna work hete now, because fuck America!” and Canadians are like, legally obligated to be nice. I’m sure it’ll all work out, as long as I share some donuts.
The hardest part will be getting used to pink money.
I mean, seriously Canada? You a big fan of monopoly money?
what if th government prohibits your ISP from initilizing your routers MAC address because its not one on an approved list?
Routers are not modems.
Put your router behind the company issued modem and then VPN out.
Every broadband connection I’ve had looks at the mac address of whatever is behind the modem, the modem essentially passes it through.
No it doesn’t. Go learn about networking, the OSI model, and ARP tables if you believe that.
Be less of an asshole, it’s free. I’ve been sniffing packets from cable modems since the 90s. I even remember the mac address of my first network card - 00a0cc52cac7, because mediaone gave out persistent hostnames based on your mac address before they were bought by at&t. I once putty’d into my machine from Katmandu just because I could. Incidentally, when I called at&t support to find out if this would continue, their support rep had no idea what I was talking about, and after I mentioned mac addresses, he suggested I call apple.
It’s not being an asshole. It’s correcting misinformation. There is no tone on the internet so if you read someone as being an asshole it might be a you problem, not a them problem. Sniffing packets doesn’t mean you understand networking as evidenced by the fact you think the modem is broadcasting your computer’s MAC address.
Just go read up on networking and you’ll realize that wouldn’t make sense.
OH BOY! State sanctioned surveillance because backdoors are necessary.
Exemptions will be sold by Trump to major manufacturers outside of the US. They will also come with mandatory back doors.
Obvious move toward even more of a surveillance state. My current router is not US made and my next one definitely won’t be. Buying American made is buying a little piece of fascism.
Very little is American made.
I have some insight for the average joe.
When you buy an American made product its a sham 99% of the time.
I used to run an injection molding machine for a job. And made parts for a well known brand.
The parts where made from LG plastics from china, on a Japanese injection molding machine ran by me. That got paid $16.40 an hour, with no benefits.
The parts said “made in America” on the mold.
Utter sham, im all for american jobs. But its bullshit to say its made in america. When all the parts that make it are not American.
There should be some legal president that if it says “made in america” it must be 98% american resources.
Not some dog eggs, of well i bought some plastic from china and the machine from japan. And had the american press the button to make the part. Therefore its an american made product.
Now im not saying all company’s are like that but majority of them are.
We get parts from Japan, unassembled. They already have made in america stamped into the side. They get put together by a couple robots and sent out the door with a huge markup for the locally manufactured parts. Local heroes keeping the community employed since 1986!
Welp, time to stock up on some older routers or make my own. This country is looking more Orwellian by the day.
Given Ubiquiti’s Russian connections, and TP Link’s Chinese connections, this honestly isn’t surprising.
Ubiquity doesn’t have Russian connections, Russians just use them as they can’t be remotely disabled and they are decent hardware.
Does anyone have any suggestions on a router I should buy before this comes into effect? Would prefer one that is open source or can run an open OS.
Can a raspberry pi be used to make a router?
this isn’t for everyone. if you don’t know what a subnet or gateway are then this isn’t for you.
get yourself a micro firewall appliance. something with an N100 Intel. should have around 5 network ports, you’ll only really need 2 if you’re just hooking up internet.
you’ll also want to get an unmanaged network switch. this will take your one port on your router and split it into 8,12,24,48, etc.
you’ll also want to install opnsense or pfsense on your router, configure it correctly, and maintain updates going forward.
Why do I need the network switch?
think of the network switch like a coax splitter on a TV antenna. it takes one port and allows many devices to connect.
in opnsense each port on the router can be setup as a completely different network subnet. this is actually the default and the easiest to configure.
for me personally, I have one port for regular network access. one for secure no internet access (things like cameras, IOT, smart devices). and one for a work network so all my work devices connect directly to the internet and bypass all my other infrastructure.
this gives me flexibility for all the devices on my network, but for most people is overkill.
you can set opnsense up to use all ports under one network, but it’s kind of a PITA from my experience.
