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Country that put backdoors into Cisco routers to spy on world bans foreign routers
(www.theregister.com)
this post was submitted on 24 Mar 2026
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There are routers made in US?
This is exasperating.
No. Which is the point. Everything has to be approved manually with no specific criteria so they can arbitrarily make the decisions they want.
And in the trump economy, that includes paying a hefty bribe for approval
Like how apple gates it’s App Store with high fees and developer licenses?
I believe it is a little bit worse when a government does that
Yeah but I can just not use an Apple device.
What is someone supposed to do when the only routers available from coast to coast are the ones made by the companies that gave Trump his 30 pieces of silver and allowed his regime to install their NSA backdoor so they can use all the new data centers they're astroturfing the web in support of to create profiles of Anti-MAGA households for ease of persecution?
This affects firmware too. Not just the hardware.
Cisco, Juniper, and Arista are US companies. The actual manufacturing is doubtlessly somewhere in Asia though.