Actually his comment was perfect because you just proved his point and are clearly too dmb to figure it out.

I see a lot of comments from people here who already know exactly how well it works and why it is "yet another thing nobody asked for", etc. What is quite obviously absent is comments from anyone who felt the need to actually try it before already knowing how well it works. Welcome to Slashot circa 2026, where there are mostly "experts" commenting who don't need to even know what the questions are to already have all of the answers.

China remains the threat, not the company in which it is manufactured, because TP-Link is a Chinese company. Why moving manufacturing to the US matters is that in the US the facility is on US soil, so federal authorities can legally conduct unannounced physical audits. They can verify that the firmware being loaded onto the routers matches the exact code submitted to regulators, to make sure no backdoors were slipped in at the last second. Since you agree this isn't to create jobs, and also seem to believe that volt, flax, and salt never happened, I guess you prefer to give Trump far more credit than he deserves for his amazing "5D Chess" skills.

That would literally have nothing to do with manufacturing. I was referring to the marketing claims and wasn't being literal. For example the Trump phone website used phrases like "American-proud design," "brought to life right here in the USA," and "designed with American values in mind". Later boxes carried an "Assembled in the USA" label instead. It doesn't matter what the label literally says. Marketing sells devices, not the manufacturing department. By the way, that bluster was 100% US grown Grade A Organic, and brought to you fresh to your screen with no additional cost to the consumer.

We have that in common. America incarcerates its citizens for exercising their freedoms, and most of the citizenry has no idea they are slaves. They even regularly cheer the police state for enslaving them, and most have no idea that they have been psyop'ed.

Did antone ever tell you that you whine like a little bitch? Nevermind ... I have no doubt it happens quite regularly.

It's weird that you couldn't admit that you were wrong to say that the DOD instituted the band, but now "sit corrected" by the semantic difference while still being completely wrong about who (the FCC) instituted the ban.

I agree that I over-simplified. I was focusing on events as they unfolded in my lifetime. I am not us "up" on my history as you, but clearly civil rights and the attack on them, as well as attacks on free speech started earlier than 1970.

We get it. You made a fool of yourself, then told me to suck a dick to prove that you are "professional" when I proved that I was correct, and still won't just admit that you were wrong. It must suck to have such a fragile ego. Off you go now ...

A firmware update can remove a firmware flaw. Nothing can remove an exploit designed in to the hardware. So while you are correct that a firmware based vuln is simpler to deploy, an APT will favor a hardware based compromise.

Apparently you missed an update. Well over half of the country can't afford to have a retirement fund and college tuition fund. Furthermore, economic gain is the foundational force that drives our countries obsession with war. Trump literally recently stated that he doesn't want the Iran war to end: "The war will end as soon as I want it to end" - Connald Trump. You probably also haven't heard of something called the military/industrial complex, Anduril, or Palintir? Do you think that AI data centers are being built en masse in a vaccuum, or do you think maybe the reason is to create a Mass Surveillance state, which is just an escalation on the War on Americans that started with the DEA and Drug Scheduling under Nixon. I guess you are right about it being in the eye of the beholder. If you are blind then it looks great.

It is both a firmware and hardware issue. It is possible to manufacture components that present risk. It should be noted that Supermicro, Apple, and Amazon all issued vehement, categorical denials stating they had never found any such chips. U.S. and UK intelligence agencies (including the NSA) also stated they found no evidence to support the hardware tampering claims. The question if whether or not it happened doesn't change the fact that, for example, CPUs or Microcontrollers can have back doors at the die / fabrication level. See also Intel TPM, etc.

You should do some basic research before replying to me in the future. It was the FCC who instituted the ban. Manufacturers can apply to the DOD or DHS for a conditional approval or exception if they can prove the equipment does not pose an unacceptable national security risk. I literally can't tell if you were trying to make a point with your second sentence. It sounds like you have a very shallow understanding of what constitutes a security risk, and you clearly didn't understand the words I wrote that you quoted.

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) banned imports of new, foreign-made consumer wireless routers due to severe national security, supply chain, and cybersecurity risks. They already say that they will need to import components. Furthermore, is sounds like they are just assembling the devices here, not manufacturing them. Are they importing the PCBs then just putting them into other imported boxes here? Surely nobody would think that doing this somehow mitigates in any way any "cybersecurity risk". I'm not against creating a few jobs in the US, but let's not try to claim this has anything to do with cybersecurity. This may create a few jobs, but won't mitigate any risk, and will likely cost citizens more while TP-Link increases its profits on our backs as we pay extra for that "Made in America" sticker.

Installing Microsoft software on your Linux system to protect it is like trying to protect your child from crashing into the dashboard by strapping him to the front bumper.