Except they don’t even bother with the table anymore.
It’s obvious: the reason is money
“Corruption” is the word you were looking for.
Yes, but that would take work.
This is tech journalism. If evidence connecting something can’t be Googled in 30 seconds, it’s just an area of speculation.
Sounds like netgear routers are now 100% confirmed to be compromised with backdoors instead of just being probable
Time to flash the old Netgear router with some open source firmware.
Yep, but unfortunately it’s not always as straight forward as it may sound. Plus, with routers becoming more difficult to acquire, it’ll only get harder and harder to pull off. But there’s OpenWRT and dd-WRT that work with a pretty decent range of routers as well as ASUS Merlin for many ASUS routers. Then, if you want to get nerdy with it and build your own router from an old computer, there’s OPNsense and pfSense. Eventually it’ll come down to these two if the ban is longterm and you want any semblance of obfuscation online…
GL.iNet are flashable and come with their fork of OpenWRT out of the box. I run the latest regular OpenWRT on mine.
What about regular do you find preferable to than their fork of WRT?
Just that it is FOSS without any black box binary blobs. It is stable and works great so why not.
Edit: I don’t have anything against the custom fork.
I tried getting into the nerdy side. I have an old PC with only one NIC, but apparently it needs two in order to bridge to a WiFi AP? That makes sense, but I don’t have an old PC with two NICs. Also, my NIC doesn’t support as much bandwidth as I have supplied anyhow. Sad times.
Edit: the desktop is old enough that the mobo doesn’t have the slots I need. Effectively, I have to get a new old burner PC. It’s an old ThinkCentre with a dvd player built in.
Well ya, you need at least two NICs to properly setup a firewall. Additionally, since NICs are the most crucial piece of hardware for routers and firewalls, it’ll only be as good as the hardware it runs on. Older NICs lead to regular crashes and/or slow network speeds. So swapping the original NIC out and adding another is VERY typical when repurposing old PCs as a router. The most common options for NICs I’ve seen are the Intel I350-T2 and I350-T4. Ironically, they cost about as much as a decent router, but going this route actually puts you in control of your home network!
Great, now I just need everyone else to do this, I can have the greatest most rebust setup imaginable, what am I gonna use it for? To talk to the other two people with similar setups?
ah so don’t buy a netgear router because the US Government will be listening in/watching. got it.
Do you really think they weren’t already?
Right, do we not remember PRISM? Edward Snowden is still living in exile in Russia.
They don’t need to tap your router when they already tap the routes.
And likely have hardware backdoors anyway.
First winner of the Netgear Peace Prize to be announced shortly.
Is it because Netgear is a “US” company? Meaning they are on the US stock exchange, have corporate offices in the US, and manufacture everything in Asia?
There’s a reason and the reason will likely be revealed to be kickbacks and payoffs.
Two possible reasons:
They agreed to installation of American spyware, probably not limited to models sold in the US, or they paid their dues to Trump, and he called the FCC.
More likely one reason… a combination of both.
People still read the verge? After the Stefan fiasco I figured no one would ever trust them again.
Spyware preinstalled. Has to be.
Well netgear has a stellar reputation for screwing up their firmware horribly so if they are involved in implementing the implant it absolutely will be noticed.
Are they better than they were 2 decades ago?
Cause last time I had a netgear router, they screwed up their hardware too… Fucker got so hot that it literally liquefied its plastic shell.
Is feature
Alternatively, if it suddenly starts working, we know they aren’t writing it.
Did anybody ever confirm if standalone wireless access points are subject to this weird FCC ban thing? Because, like, you can make your own router out of an old computer.
This is for devices sold, specifically new devices sold. Not the existence (or making of) and it only affects specifically consumer-grade devices sold explicitly for the consumer market. So it wouldn’t affect universities, homelabs, or any corporation.
It is just a shake down for bribes to continue selling routers in the US, that’s it.
The FCC ruling prohibits the sale of new models of consumer router. It doesn’t forbid the continuing use of existing routers or, if I understand it right, the continued sale of models that were already on sale. So you can continue to use existing models as WAPs or routers. But when the tech and the security moves on the FCC wants the USA to be left behind.
I don’t think the FCC ban is really effective anyway. I was able to easily order a foreign-made router recently from the same reseller I’ve used in the past.
Also even if they did police the retailers for router sales, I doubt anybody on eBay is going to give a shit so there will be lots of routers for sale there.
The ban is on giving fcc license approval to new models, so stuff that’s out now can still sell
