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FCC exempts Netgear from ban on foreign routers, doesn't explain why
- throwa356262 6mo agoFor the sake of efficiency, FCC should publish 1. The name of the person your company must bribe 2. How much it would cost you.
- NewJazz 6mo agoNo, you're supposed to guess how much to bribe. They make more that way. And then after you've bribed one person, keep the ink wet because you'll need to bribe someone else soon!
- 3RTB297 6mo agoEveryone knows how much the bribe is: Collusion! Cartels! Calamity! No one knows how much the bribe is? "Relationships are Important", "Cost of Doing Business", "An Investment in Us"
- cyanydeez 6mo agoevidence suggests, however, its still laughably cheap to buy so dont expect more than 1% of annual revenue.
- WalterGR 6mo ago2 days ago with 75 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47773448 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47773448
- jqpabc123 6mo agoAren't most routers foreign made? So a ban is basically shutting down the router market. And exempting Netgear is arbitrary and hypocritical. Essentially, government has anointed a marketplace winner.
- yesbut 6mo agobecause Netgear is willing to do what the US wants in regards to its mass surveillance projects.
- tibbydudeza 6mo agoDonation and ICE agent backdoor installed.
- gmerc 6mo agoGolden router or peace board donation
- nacozarina 6mo agoNow you know which brand is really compromised
- OutOfHere 6mo agoThe NSA appears to be systematically compromising multiple government agencies like a bad virus. NIST and now the FCC appear compromised. Can someone please decompile, reverse engineer, and assess the code of the Netgear firmware to find backdoors? Odds are that they go back a decade, meaning that both old and new firmware is likely to have the vulnerabilities. Look for code that is common among firmwares. What is the magic packet that executes arbitrary instructions and opens the door? The firmware has got to be in C and C++, so there is heavy opportunity for serious flaws.
- OutOfHere 6mo agoThus far Netgear has been keeping up technologically, but only because of good competition. The moment this competition goes away, so will the innovation, and we will left with obsolete hardware.
- josefritzishere 6mo agoNow everyone knows there is a backdoor in Netgear.