US congressional panel urges Americans to ditch China-made routers
US congressional panel urges Americans to ditch China-made routers
www.reuters.com
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And replace them with american spyware? Nice try NSA
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Mine's European, but actually Chinese.
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Best I can do is flash custom firmware.
Edit: See this helpful comment below if you're interested! https://sh.itjust.works/post/33900457/17108468
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This is what every normie should be doing.
Bought a router but it wanted me to get an account with a "proper" email address.
Lol wtf good thing Foss chads were already cooking haha
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EU commission should be urging Europeans to ditch US products and services 🤷
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Openwrt
Opnsense
Pfsense
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So..... All of them?
Does it count as "China made" if the firmware is FOSS and I load it myself? NICs and boards are pretty much all made in China, but how far does this go?
It depends on how bad China wants your porn. There could be secondary MCUs that are designed to completely bypass the original firmware. (Think Intel ME)
That is not very practical for consumer grade gear, but still possible.
Yes, it counts. Hardware backdoors are absolutely a thing.