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The reason the FCC is only allowing the sale of state approved routers in the US?

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[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 11 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (1 children)

The question with mandating US made routers may be either to protect citizens from foreign attacks - or to make sure every US router is a router with a government-approved backdoor.

On which option would you bet?

[–] piecat@lemmy.world 5 points 11 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

Because they ignored the first issue for long enough, so it is more or less a non-issue for the US government.