This tells me any equipment that is classified as acceptable by these requirements is immediately suspect, and should not be permitted to connect to, or communicate with, equipment you need to trust.
It’s the US. Anyone surprised?
Well no, they tend to copy a lot from China these days.
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Or don’t even try too. Wish they tried to copy infrastructure improvements or high speed rail. All we get is more money to corporations to do absolutely nothing
They don’t copy the part where they execute billionaires, unfortunately https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2011-07-23/china-executes-14-billionaires-in-8-years-culture-news-reports
Although, if you’re an influential billionaire you don’t get executed but get disappeared for some time, like jack ma, giving the general feeling that they want to control billionaires and not just get rid of them
I’m starting to believe a lot of the bad we hear about China is at best overblown and at worst completely fucking made up.
Remember all the articles predicting their doom because they built “ghost cities” and “trains to nowhere” and now they’re all actual cities with employed populations and there is high speed rail everywhere?
Yeah since 9/11 we’ve only had liars in charge seeing how much they can milk all of us, and apparently America really does have great ties because they’re still honkin and we’re still letting em.
Anyway since we can’t tell what’s true and what’s a lie thanks to the “state dept” propaganda I’m just gonna go ahead and say that the most advanced country on earth is probably way ahead of the USA.
It‘s a dictatorship without basic human rights. If you really think ICE is bad then imagine ICE 10 times bigger and several decades older and more refined. That‘s the Chinese state for you. The US is on it‘s way there. That‘s why we criticize them.
I also don‘t see a single aspect where China is ahead of literally everyone else. They have quantity and more and more often people seem to think that means innovation. Like „Sure, university X has the most advanced robots but China is producing 20 different models on a larger scale that are almost as good!“. But they‘re not better, though. China has quality too, yes. But nothing no one else has. Really, I cannot think of a single technology where some institute on the globe isn‘t at least on par with what China is doing. Being the world factory they are often the first to have things largely available to the global market but they‘re never the first to do something.
There is a reason everyone is afraid of industrial espionage from China. It’s because they don‘t really innovate but they will mass produce your innovation before you know it.
There are also ghost cities that basically got demolished, like dozens of skyscrapers one after the other.
Two counties can be bad at the same time, not everything has to be nalck and white. China can suck also when the US sucks. China can even suck despite doing a lot of cool things.
Uh oh…
There are routers made in US?
No. Which is the point. Everything has to be approved manually with no specific criteria so they can arbitrarily make the decisions they want.
And in the trump economy, that includes paying a hefty bribe for approval
According to the BBC, the one exception is the newer Starlink Wi-Fi router, which the company says is manufactured in Texas.
This is exasperating.
Of course they’re banning foreign routers. They want all Americans to have only routers with government backdoors. At this point, backdoor-free routers are a threat to ‘national security’.
What happened to small government?
I live in probably one of the reddest states, and it’s always been hypocrisy. Republicans are lying out of their lower lie holes every fucking time they open their mouths.
Every single Republican politician and voter is a purely evil person.
I dont know if I’d say evil but they’re definitely uninformed and ignorant.
They’ve been fed nothing but lies and propaganda and taught that the other side is evil, and if they’re religious it’s exactly the same as being in a full on cult with no bearing on reality.
Sure, some of us like myself were smart enough to realize its a massive grift . not everyone has the brainpower.
It’s always been imaginary. They think that private property is a natural right, so a government with lots of soldiers and police is small.
The founding fathers loved small government that defended their teensy little slave plantations. They passionately argued about freedom with other rich white men.
Everyone who honestly wants small government eventually realizes that none was ever necessary at all.
Making the government small enough to fit into every aspect of your life. No crevice too small.
The small government means they want the government to not stop them from doing 1 very specific state rights
Every accusation of them is an admission of guilt.
So stop buying any US made hardware.
This is why open source and open hardware is so important.
There is an exemption for products that the Department of Defense or the Department of Homeland Security have granted “Conditional Approval” after finding these devices do not pose such unacceptable risks. Router makers can apply to the FCC to get on the approved list.
Wow, what an insane coincidence it’s exactly those two departments and no one else. Golly, I wonder why. (Edit: To clarify, if you’re going to do this stupid, posturing bullshit, I “get” the DoD because of the NSA, and DHS has CISA. Just really no one else? Seems like consolidating more control.)
I mean… supply chain hardening has been a concern for most of the three letter agencies (and governments around the world) for years. There are very serious concerns over how basically every NIC comes out of a factory in China and what the implications of that are.
If DoD actually do have a list of vetted and hardened products, that WOULD be a very good baseline for if you care about security at all. Less so from the US government, but that can then be compared against similar lists from other countries.
And considering that basically every TLA has the same concerns, if those orgs are willing to spend their budget? DoE and the like ain’t gonna complain.
I do care about cybersecurity, but I’m well past a point with the Trump administration where it’s possible to take even the few good-sounding things coming out of it at face value. I don’t believe for a second Trump or anyone in his cabinet values cybersecurity over: jingoistic “Made in America” posturing to his audience, enforcing a monopoly on spying on US citizens, giving as much power as possible to the two departments he’s most heavily and illegally abusing, and using this as more “trade war” bullshit where multinational corporations can personally bribe him to get whitelisted.
I might celebrate this if we had a POTUS who hadn’t demonstrated over and over for a decade that everything they do is a ploy to turn the US into a kleptofascist hellscape.
I agree with you; your concerns are rational. I don’t think you or I share them with the Trump administration.
