US Bans All Foreign-Made Consumer Routers

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This is for new routers; you don’t have to throw away your existing ones:

The Executive Branch determination noted that foreign-produced routers (1) introduce “a supply chain vulnerability that could disrupt the U.S. economy, critical infrastructure, and national defense” and (2) pose “a severe cybersecurity risk that could be leveraged to immediately and severely disrupt U.S. critical infrastructure and directly harm U.S. persons.”

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Any new router made outside the US will now need to be approved by the FCC before it can be imported, marketed, or sold in the country…

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