This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
Something the US has in common with China, they intercepted network gear and installed backdoors too while also demanding backdoors be installed in regular consumer devices. Plus the telecom/ISP secret surveillance rooms... Both countries governments are evil.
That ough to be one of the laziest genAI slop images for a "Chinese router with a backdoor".
Damn, it's bad.
That flag. Ugh.
There was a time when by facebook wall was plastered with AI slop articles, and all of them had flags chucked in like this.
A report of China obviously and illegally spying on large amounts of people (not only in the USA I might add), and that's the top comment?
I mean, it was assumed and mostly known that it was taking place already. Thats why the government tried to prevent them from being sold in the US. Did anyone really think they were going to give up on spying on world citizens when they were forced to sell TikTok?
No. But a hardware backdoor is a big step from whatever TikTok is doing. And I know it's not the first one either, but still, the disclosure of each and every one deserves attention.
Yeah that one is fairly hideous. Why can't they just use a product shot?
But can i put pfsense or something on it?
At least they should have good openwrt support!
Another case of: use an American router against the Chinese backdoor behind a Chinese router against the American backdoor.
(Or just do open source)
throw an Indian router, an Israeli router and a Turkish router into the chain for extra security
oh COME ON. The last thing I needed in this jingoistic American economy was any reason to legitimize their crap
Do you mean, legitimize the USA being anti-China?
I think it's important to remember that the USA aren't the only bad player on the globe.
We can be against China without being pro MAGA.
