FCC bans wireless router imports, citing security concerns

[davepdx]

17. Sounds like a lot of blame shifting to me

Note that the linked article says: "The agency added that foreign-made routers were exploited in the Volt, Flax and Salt Typhoon cyberattacks targeting US infrastructure." You'd have to believe that where the US infrastructure attacks occurred were using consumer grade routers to justify this stupid ruling.

The facilities attacked should have been using enterprise grade routers. IMO, it is the software on the routers, particularly on the enterprise grade routers, that are the cause. Known but unfixed, undiscovered or unseen programming errors/bugs in proprietary software are, imo, the major contributing factors to these hacking situations along with social engineering.

How many people actually know how to and have ever upgraded their consumer grade router software? Bugs are found all the time and vendors post fixes for the router software. Requiring a fix the difficulty of upgrading firmware situation is would be more useful I'd think.

So my takeaway of "let's blame consumer routers for the problem" just frustrates me no end.