▲ 1203 ▼ Country that put backdoors into Cisco routers to spy on world bans foreign routers (www.theregister.com) submitted 4 months ago by RobotToaster@mander.xyz to c/nottheonion@lemmy.world 82 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] REDACTED@infosec.pub 77 points 4 months ago (3 children) There are routers made in US? permalink fedilink source hideshow 6 child comments replies: [–] halcyoncmdr@piefed.social 109 points 4 months ago (2 children) No. Which is the point. Everything has to be approved manually with no specific criteria so they can arbitrarily make the decisions they want. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] Munkisquisher@lemmy.nz 55 points 4 months ago (1 child) And in the trump economy, that includes paying a hefty bribe for approval permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [+] Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works -2 points 4 months ago (2 children) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] spitfire@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago I believe it is a little bit worse when a government does that permalink fedilink source parent [–] Angrydeuce@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago Yeah but I can just not use an Apple device. What is someone supposed to do when the only routers available from coast to coast are the ones made by the companies that gave Trump his 30 pieces of silver and allowed his regime to install their NSA backdoor so they can use all the new data centers they're astroturfing the web in support of to create profiles of Anti-MAGA households for ease of persecution? permalink fedilink source parent [–] hopesdead@startrek.website 16 points 4 months ago This affects firmware too. Not just the hardware. permalink fedilink source parent [–] ClipperDefiance@lemmy.world 46 points 4 months ago 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. permalink fedilink source parent [–] FE80@lemmy.world 17 points 4 months ago Cisco, Juniper, and Arista are US companies. The actual manufacturing is doubtlessly somewhere in Asia though. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] halcyoncmdr@piefed.social 109 points 4 months ago (2 children) No. Which is the point. Everything has to be approved manually with no specific criteria so they can arbitrarily make the decisions they want. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] Munkisquisher@lemmy.nz 55 points 4 months ago (1 child) And in the trump economy, that includes paying a hefty bribe for approval permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [+] Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works -2 points 4 months ago (2 children) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] spitfire@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago I believe it is a little bit worse when a government does that permalink fedilink source parent [–] Angrydeuce@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago Yeah but I can just not use an Apple device. What is someone supposed to do when the only routers available from coast to coast are the ones made by the companies that gave Trump his 30 pieces of silver and allowed his regime to install their NSA backdoor so they can use all the new data centers they're astroturfing the web in support of to create profiles of Anti-MAGA households for ease of persecution? permalink fedilink source parent [–] hopesdead@startrek.website 16 points 4 months ago This affects firmware too. Not just the hardware. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Munkisquisher@lemmy.nz 55 points 4 months ago (1 child) And in the trump economy, that includes paying a hefty bribe for approval permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [+] Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works -2 points 4 months ago (2 children) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] spitfire@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago I believe it is a little bit worse when a government does that permalink fedilink source parent [–] Angrydeuce@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago Yeah but I can just not use an Apple device. What is someone supposed to do when the only routers available from coast to coast are the ones made by the companies that gave Trump his 30 pieces of silver and allowed his regime to install their NSA backdoor so they can use all the new data centers they're astroturfing the web in support of to create profiles of Anti-MAGA households for ease of persecution? permalink fedilink source parent
[+] Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works -2 points 4 months ago (2 children) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] spitfire@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago I believe it is a little bit worse when a government does that permalink fedilink source parent [–] Angrydeuce@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago Yeah but I can just not use an Apple device. What is someone supposed to do when the only routers available from coast to coast are the ones made by the companies that gave Trump his 30 pieces of silver and allowed his regime to install their NSA backdoor so they can use all the new data centers they're astroturfing the web in support of to create profiles of Anti-MAGA households for ease of persecution? permalink fedilink source parent
[–] spitfire@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago I believe it is a little bit worse when a government does that permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Angrydeuce@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago Yeah but I can just not use an Apple device. What is someone supposed to do when the only routers available from coast to coast are the ones made by the companies that gave Trump his 30 pieces of silver and allowed his regime to install their NSA backdoor so they can use all the new data centers they're astroturfing the web in support of to create profiles of Anti-MAGA households for ease of persecution? permalink fedilink source parent
[–] hopesdead@startrek.website 16 points 4 months ago This affects firmware too. Not just the hardware. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] ClipperDefiance@lemmy.world 46 points 4 months ago 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. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] FE80@lemmy.world 17 points 4 months ago Cisco, Juniper, and Arista are US companies. The actual manufacturing is doubtlessly somewhere in Asia though. permalink fedilink source parent