Carmi Levy

And so imagine the power

of a bad actor who would be able to literally stand on your router and watch all of that traffic flow back and forth.

Those are the keys to the kingdom.

We talk about mass surveillance, Orwellian visions of mass surveillance in the digital connected age.

This is what it looks like.

And if you're going to target one device to see inside people's digital lives, it would be the router.

And now the Federal Communications Commission in the U.S.,

has banned any router that isn't made in the US from being sold in the US.

So your current router is fine.

If the router that you want to buy has already been approved, you can still buy it.

But going forward, as foreign manufacturers introduce new routers to the market, the FCC will not allow them to be sold in the US because they're saying it is a national security concern.

They don't want

companies that are based in China to be able to surveil traffic that is flowing in and out of not only our homes, but our businesses and all of our networks.

They did the same thing with drones a few months ago.

So the FCC is just taking the drone ban and applying it to routers.

But I would argue that the router piece is a lot more impactful than the drone one.

You can choose to not buy a drone.

Most of us don't have a choice.

We have to have a router.

I'm still worried, though, because, you know, for all this and I remember, you know, because the national security concern is trotted out all the time when governments want to impose a change.