Comment on The US government just banned consumer routers made outside the US
NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de 11 hours agoI’m not from the US. And I think the way they’re trying to tackle it is stupid, roughly for the reasons you say. But on a surface level it’s good that there is some action taken on this matter.
The country does matter. It allows oversight and regulation to a greater extent. And if it turns out that there’s a backdoor in a router, if it’s made locally there will be someone to criminally charge, whereas if it’s made in China or wherever, that would be impossible.
Then again, it’s the US, so they’d probably charge some random worker instead of the CEO who demanded the back door be implemented.
B0rax@feddit.org 10 hours ago
What kind of oversight are you talking about? Locally produced items do not need to fulfill more regulations.
If this was about cyber security there would be a mandatory certification (like there is for emc, like the FCC). But blanket statements like „foreign company bad!“ don’t do anything for increasing cyber security
kibiz0r@midwest.social 9 hours ago
Yeah, items are licensed according to where they’re sold, not made. “More oversight” makes no sense.