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US ban on foreign-made consumer routers takes effect this spring

Original: This spring, the United States banned all future foreign-made consumer routers - effectively all future routers - unless

The United States moved this spring to bar future foreign-made consumer routers from the market unless manufacturers satisfy two conditions: convincing the US government they pose no national security threat, and submitting a detailed, time-bound plan for establishing domestic or trusted production. The policy effectively covers nearly all future consumer routers, since most are made abroad, and signals a tightening US stance on network hardware security.

Why now: unclear

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• This spring, the United States banned all future foreign-made consumer routers - effectively all future routers - unless their makers could 1) convince the US government that they weren't a national security threat, and 2) submit "a detailed, time-bound plan to establish or… · verge@www.urbanmind.net · 2

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