Discussion
The FCC just saved Netgear from its router ban for no obvious reason
xvxvx: They paid the shakedown fee.
oldge: Either they agreed to put the back door in their routers or someone got paid off.
duxup: I feel like pretending a department under this administration's thumb is actually going to act honestly is a bit absurd.They made a donation ... somewhere. Now they're all good. None of Trump's bluster is honest, they're just graft gates.It wasn't any different during the first administration. I worked at a company slated to be acquired by a foreign company. But the approval just never came from the feds. Then one day the acquiring foreign company CEO visited the White House and that day Trump approved it. Trump even made a little speech about jobs. Then we were all told we were going to be laid off... Shortly after one of Trump's companies announced a big land deal in the home country of the acquiring company. MEGA ...
0o_MrPatrick_o0: ‘The United States’ foreign router ban didn’t make a whole lot of sense, and today may not change that.`???No obvious reason? What if the Executive Branch is a dog chasing cars?It’s just doing things.
frugalmail: I was under the impression the ping back to china security issues are what prompted this, until they were evaluated. I don't think Netgear would have a problem passing the audit.
cjbgkagh: The looting stage of collapse, people tend to thing someone will come and save things but so long as there is more money in decline the leaders will do that instead.
da02: What was the home country of the acquiring company? UAE? Argentina?
ericmay: The collapse as you call it is occurring precisely because we started hating ourselves and pitted one another against one another, whether that’s by class, race, or gender. And both major political parties are guilty of that to varying degrees. We are an unserious society, obsessed with the new Buc-eez gas station, TikTok, and abstract art. We forgot that Communism and Fascism are social death spirals, and that good governance requires not just an education but a desire to learn and engage. If this is collapse (it’s not) it’s largely because of factors such as that. Sometimes I don’t blame the Islamic fundamentalists and their chants of Death to America. I’d fight to the death too to stop some dumb ass gas station beaver and a bunch of MAGA folks and furries from setting up shop in my country too, if only it hasn’t already happened here.
jonahbenton: Why is TP Link still being sold.
wtallis: Among other reasons: the recent ban was on FCC approval for new products. Existing products that had already secured FCC approval are unaffected by the new policy and can continue being sold.
akulbe: Follow the money.
bediger4000: Id by "doing things" you mean "accumulating mysterious anonymous crypto payments" and "getting a large draw from a shell company", then yes.
cjbgkagh: I know there is a personal responsibility / call to action in there but I think it elides both how politics work and how people work. Politics is run by cynical operatives skilled in mass manipulation and people generally believe what they’re told to believe. Encouraging people to tilt at windmills is one of the ways to undermine effective opposition. I think actual effective opposition is localism / a general devolution of power.It’s all moot anyway because AI is already smart enough to upend the economy / social order. A productivity boom without a consumption boom will kill margins across the board.
BobbyTables2: Read this and tell me there isn’t any obvious reason.Journalists, do your own job!!!https://www.reddit.com/r/pwnhub/s/4R7TKyjZDm
abofh: It's pages long, no.
nielsbot: that’s the outcome of soft fascism: a lot of pay to play.
OutOfHere: My bigger fear is whether Netgear has one or more backdoors exploitable for use by the US government. It's firmware will have to be reverse engineered and then reviewed by AI.In the long term, an absence of competition bodes poorly.
kennywinker: Why AI? An unproven proprietary tech is your go-to over skilled security researchers?
cjbgkagh: I passed on an invitation to tender a number of years ago because there was no way to meet the minority / women quota that was tied to it. The big players use pass through front companies which isn’t feasible for me as I’m a solo operator.The Netgear thing is more egregious but the quotas are more pervasive. I would like to be rid of both.
sathackr: MEGA is now headquartered in Hungary...who until very recently was run by someone very much aligned with the far right movement.