5 pointsby aw-engineer5 hours ago4 comments
  • nubinetwork39 minutes ago
  • aw-engineer5 hours ago
    WASHINGTON, March 23, 2026—Today, the Federal Communications Commission updated its Covered List to include all consumer-grade routers produced in foreign countries. Routers are the boxes in every home that connect computers, phones, and smart devices to the internet. This followed a determination by a White House-convened Executive Branch interagency body with appropriate national security expertise that such routers “pose unacceptable risks to the national security of the United States or the safety and security of United States persons.”
  • cyanydeez25 minutes ago
    So on the one hand, this is an absurd ban; on the other hand, whenever this corrupt USA government does anything this absurd, it usually signals the start of the kleptocrat activities.

    So, whose going to come rescuse us with the CLEARLY superior technology that ABSOLUTELY DOES NOT implement the very thing the FCC is trying to protect the SMALL american from?

  • allears5 hours ago
    Are there any consumer-grade (or any grade) routers produced in the US?
    • aw-engineer3 hours ago
      Great question.

      As a data point, Purism has worked on USA supply chain for their cell phone (Librem 5), and currently ships with mixed-origin parts. "We use US companies with US fabrication whenever possible. Most distributors are based in the US with the exception of large integrated circuits that are made in a variety of countries where those companies do fabrication (US, Taiwan, South Korea, Japan); an example is the NXP CPU we use from their fabrication in South Korea." <https://puri.sm/products/librem-5-usa/#table-of-origin>