return2ozma@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agoThe US bans all new foreign-made network routerswww.engadget.comexternal-linkmessage-square150linkfedilinkarrow-up1582arrow-down16cross-posted to: cybersecurity@sh.itjust.works
arrow-up1576arrow-down1external-linkThe US bans all new foreign-made network routerswww.engadget.comreturn2ozma@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agomessage-square150linkfedilinkcross-posted to: cybersecurity@sh.itjust.works
minus-squareTarambor@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up80·2 months agoThe only slight problem with this is that there are no routers made in the USA.
minus-squaresunbeam60@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up16·2 months agoWell, you can run your own router on your own hardware but other than that, agreed.
minus-squareReygle@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12·2 months agoIs that hardware also made in the US ><
minus-squaresunbeam60@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-22 months agoMy point was mostly that the concept of a router can be executed by any computer with more than one NIC. Trump isn’t disallowing computers from outside the US, surely, only stuff that looks like routers. They’ll have a hard time defining what a router is.
minus-squarelocahosr443@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·2 months agoBut where is that hardware made
minus-squareTiger_Man_@szmer.infolinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·2 months agoget iron from local mine and go make some relays
minus-squarelocahosr443@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 months agoBut where were those tools made?
minus-squareandallthat@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·2 months agowell, Trump has a worryingly faint and ever-changing idea of where the USA borders end…
minus-squareKissaki@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·2 months agoAll it needs is a bribe from Cisco, and it’s no problem anymore. Probably.
minus-squareexcral@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·2 months agoNew business venture: sell computers that totally aren’t routers, pinky promise, but just randomly happen to run OpenWrt perfectly and have all the needed hardware.
The only slight problem with this is that there are no routers made in the USA.
Well, you can run your own router on your own hardware but other than that, agreed.
Is that hardware also made in the US ><
My point was mostly that the concept of a router can be executed by any computer with more than one NIC.
Trump isn’t disallowing computers from outside the US, surely, only stuff that looks like routers. They’ll have a hard time defining what a router is.
But where is that hardware made
get iron from local mine and go make some relays
But where were those tools made?
well, Trump has a worryingly faint and ever-changing idea of where the USA borders end…
All it needs is a bribe from Cisco, and it’s no problem anymore. Probably.
New business venture: sell computers that totally aren’t routers, pinky promise, but just randomly happen to run OpenWrt perfectly and have all the needed hardware.