FCC exempts Netgear from ban on foreign routers, doesn't explain why

Posted by rawgabbit 23 hours ago

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Comment by throwa356262 22 hours ago

For the sake of efficiency, FCC should publish

1. The name of the person your company must bribe

2. How much it would cost you.

Comment by NewJazz 21 hours ago

No, 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!

Comment by 3RTB297 20 hours ago

Everyone 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"

Comment by cyanydeez 19 hours ago

evidence suggests, however, its still laughably cheap to buy so dont expect more than 1% of annual revenue.

Comment by jqpabc123 21 hours ago

Aren'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.

Comment by WalterGR 23 hours ago

2 days ago with 75 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47773448

Comment by gmerc 19 hours ago

Golden router or peace board donation

Comment by yesbut 20 hours ago

because Netgear is willing to do what the US wants in regards to its mass surveillance projects.

Comment by OutOfHere 14 hours ago

Thus 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.

Comment by OutOfHere 15 hours ago

The 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.