US regulator bans imports of new foreign-made routers, citing security concerns

They're a decade or two too late.

They rather us use the ones they will make by some subsidiary of Palantir. It will be easier.

Do we even make this stuff here? If we aren’t importing them we had better start making them pretty quick.

Maybe he'll give $12B to a foreign company to stop building routers.

"Mother, should I trust the government?"

I'd ask what routers aren't made abroad, but then I'd also have to ask if tech made in the US doesn't have some three letter agency spooks trying to spy on us. And we all know the answer to that one. So the only thing that leaves is IPoAC systems.

Bit late for that, the ship sailed in about 2005. Amazed they took time out of trying to get Kimmel cancelled for this.

So they're banning pretty much all routers? Almost none of that shit is made here.

I'd rather the Chinese have my data than Palantir at this point.

get ready for palentir spy routers.

So, Brendan Carr is doing what the previous GOP-majority FCCs said wasn’t possible; they said the FCC couldn’t make policy without Congress when Net Neutrality was something they didn’t want.

Weird how suddenly everything foreign is suddenly a security risk

This is probably to raise costs of internet hardware, and drive to people to Starlink for his buddy Elon’s upcoming IPO.

IDGAF if China spies on me because they’re in China and they can’t do anything to me. We should be way more worried about the U.S. gov’t. Also, half the time some foreign hacker gains access to our information it’s only because they piggybacked off some U.S. gov’t mandated back door.

Every router is foreign made from my understanding, why wouldn't this just be a ban on Chinese companies? Even US router makers produce their products in China.

A little more warning might have been nice... it's not as if you can construct a new high-volume factory for small consumer electronics quickly. Yes, there are US factories for everything, but not at this kind of volume. Since the order only applies to new models, it just means we ain't getting any upgrades any time soon. And we are gonna be SOL when current-gen SoC's (System-on-a-Chip) reach the end of their natural product lifecycle. (Oh, and the order also exempts routers that the Pentagon has declared an "acceptable risk"... I have a feeling the "risk" will be directly correlated with the number of trips to Mar-A-Lago the executives make.)

So pretty much all routers are imported - how is this going to work? When does it start?

The FCC order does not impact the ​import or use of existing models, but will ban new ones. The agency ​said a White House-convened review deemed imported routers pose "a severe cybersecurity risk ⁠that could be leveraged to immediately and severely disrupt U.S. critical infrastructure." It said malicious ​actors had exploited security gaps in foreign-made routers "to attack households, disrupt networks, enable espionage, ​and facilitate intellectual property theft," citing their role in major hacks like Volt and Salt Typhoon. # The determination includes an exemption for routers the Pentagon deems do not pose unacceptable risks.

Betcha the regulator just bought stock in the biggest router producer in the US.

I must have missed something recently; which inept trump spawn was gifted a board seat for a router manufacturer?

Thr NSA made Cisco put a backdoor in its routers

Dang these are the routers I’m using. They’ve been collecting my data for over a decade now?

The totalitarian crackdown is happening right in front of your face America. You better do something quick.

This guy's going to some extreme measures to stay in power.

Yeah this totally isn't going to be used to solicit bribes for waivers. /s

Do we even make routers?

Irony is the government wants your ID which is a huge security concern of mine.

Very few routers are made in the U.S. Do you want an example of one made here? Starlink ones. Now we know why this is going on. The giant grift continues. Good job, MAGA Morons who support this garbage and hoisted this on our country. Go pound sand, you twits.

I used to think stuff like this was a good thing. However with our current regime it makes me worried that they are laying to foundation to have the US's own version of China's great firewall

Trump did not get his bribes I see.

I hope my Trump router 2000 comes in gold...

I thought real Americans could buy whatever they want.

Does this affect TP-Link? Mikrotik?

Should ban lenovo too 

The security of their bribes depends on them blocking outside competition.

I've been using a software based router running in a VM for close to 10 years now.

Does this affect gl.inet routers?

A lot of this stems from a story several years ago where cellphone switch (used at the base of a tower) had firmware in it that “phoned home” to China. The concern being China could launch cyber warfare against us by shutting down a portion of the cell towers in the US.

I started playing Homefront: The Revolution the other day and I swear the Trump administration thinks its a accurate representation of the world. 

I don’t trust this administration they wanna lets their surveillance into my like. I’ll get EU products.

I wonder exactly what routers are made in the US?

They certainly don't need to use a router to hack us. They're extremely capable at this already. First drones, then this...stinks of protectionism under the guise of safety.

This administration needs a re-logo....something like "America Worst".

Given that I'd to search high and low for a comparable home router - I'm just super happy that my router doesn't spout off in Standard Mandarin randomly. I can probably patch it until the cows come home, and then probably have some hyper-specific over-ride to my device that can't be e-prom'ed away.

Follow the money on this one

More serious than the security breach by DOGE?

Only trump approved routers to filter through trump approved propaganda

The FCC update isn’t a ban on every router. Their FAQ says it applies to new consumer‑grade routers made by foreign manufacturers, which mainly affects companies like TP‑Link, Tenda, and similar OEM brands. Anything already approved or already being sold in the U.S. isn’t affected. But we aren’t stuck here, and we don’t have to buy whatever “patriot router” or reactionary cash‑grab gets marketed next. There are real alternatives that put you in control. Open‑source options like pfSense or OPNsense running on small x86 boxes (Netgate, Protectli, etc.) give you full transparency and aren’t impacted by this because they’re not consumer routers under the FCC’s definition. Ubiquiti is also unaffected since it’s a U.S. company and their gear falls under enterprise networking rules. If anything, this is a good moment to step back from the usual consumer router cycle and look at solutions that are more open, more secure, and actually put the user in charge.

And where do 99% of all routers originate?