Andrew

Again, it's like it's kind of weird.

What they're doing is either companies can apply for like an extension to be allowed into the United States if they're proving that they're working on creating a manufacturing aspect in the United States to pass that.

I've seen that.

Nobody's going to do that.

We've tried this so many times.

It doesn't work.

Or like.

Similar to what DJI does, the company's just not going to release it in the US for X amount of time until this either stops or just not care.

The United States is claiming the routers were directly implicated in the Volt, Flax, and Salt Typhoon cyberattacks, which were a set of cyberattacks a while ago.

Okay, so this is the funny thing.

It's the United States.

They were Cisco and Netgear routers that were designed by US companies.

But the reason they were vulnerable is because the companies stopped providing updates for them.

So they were unupdated security risk routers, which has nothing to do with who made them.

It has to do with who's continuing the software up there.

So this is like saying, hey, hackers targeted vulnerable things because they're vulnerable and probably shouldn't be used or should have been updated anymore.

It has nothing to do with the fact... I get that there is like...

foreign countries that maybe we're worried about and stuff like this but this feels like a blanket ban that is not actually helping anything uh heavy-handed government intervention in tech no no it's yeah so the residential thing i'm really confused about because i'm also confused there is if the main thing we're trying to protect is like government agencies and government information stuff like

Maybe government shouldn't be using residential.

That's what the ban should be.