FCC updates covered list to include foreign-made consumer routers

“The FCC has added several Chinese consumer router brands to the covered equipment list, banning their sale and import.”

TP-Link is the obvious target, and the rest of the list is just window dressing. The FCC has decided that the cheapest router on Amazon is also the country’s biggest network security blind spot. They might be right. The replacement is not American manufacturing. It is Taiwanese and Vietnamese hardware running the same firmware with a different sticker on it.