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Sounds a little paranoid to me. These insecure devices are just being pushed out into the wild. It doesn't matter if they are imported into the US. They can be

• drzaiusapelord 10y ago
  A lot of malware and ransomware is hardcoded to ignore Russian IPs as per Brian Krebs. The malware runs, does a quick check to see its public IP, and if its Russian it exits. A list for China's IPs could also be put into these devices.
  • CoryG89 10y ago
    Unless I am uninformed, I don't think it's the case that any of these IoT devices come with malware preinstalled. They are just vulnerable because of weak default identical passwords. The fear is about these devices being exploited, not that they are malicious themselves. My argument still stands. You could just as easily load malware which ignores American IPs.