US congressional panel urges Americans to ditch China-made routers

[evanjrowley]

We can become like Thailand, where all routers must be imported using a special license and have a government approval sticker on them: https://www.cnx-software.com/2025/01/27/importing-a-single-r...

[gnabgib]

Related US could ban TP-Link routers over hacking fears: report (174 points, 3 months ago, 245 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42451130

[quantified]

FBI hacks your routers to disable botnets. Why does it matter who made the backdoors?

[up-n-atom]

If it’s such a concern, the government could just use their money to say buy the firmware rights from Qualcomm and Broadcom or just force their hand (they’re US based) to create a certified firmware to push in a less liberal free OpenWrt approach. Except this is more than not lobbying by Cisco just to pile on the e-waste.

And yes, tp-link firmware is just more poop spat on top of others but it’s the same from all manufacturers that insists on gathering and selling your data, and pushing their branding. Security is an illusion if you’re the product.

Do yourself a favor and check if there is an open source firmware provided by OpenWrt and remember binary blobs are an unfortunate reality.

[ggm]

Interesting one time spend. Also an opportunity for ipv6 and cgn to take off.

Depends what TR069 thinks maybe?

[hunglee2]

American citizens would be safer with hacked China made routers

[inverted_flag]

These routers are used to host malware that targets US infrastructure, so no.