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Can anyone speculate why the FCC has banned foreign-made routers?
The cynical possibility is just Buy American focus, using whatever tools are available. There are American-'manufactured' and non-Chinese manufactured network infrastructure, this rule gives a very easy tool to make it extremely risky to sell the banned routers at a storefront in the US, tada.
((The really cynical possibility is that, plus some stock trades or donations, and maybe a little fucking over of international shippers for funsies.))
The more charitable is that router vulnerabilities are Pretty Big Deals, and a lot of the ugly questionably legal tools to use against domestic manufacturers to get them to turn of uPnP or implement randomized default passwords or maintain a five-year support period with automatic updates is not available for manufacturers that get 99% of their sales through Amazon as CE-marks.
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