Carmi Levy

But it's easily the most important piece of technology that you have in your house because literally all traffic gets routed through it.

And everything you do depends on this.

When you think of a series of computers that you connect to to go from your house to Google, that router is the first computer you connect to.

It is not just like an appliance.

It's not a toaster.

Even though it looks like a little device, an embedded device, it's a full computer in there that runs an operating system with software.

And someone's got to create that software.

And all your internet traffic is running through it.

What happens if a bad foreign actor writes software that, I don't know, sends a copy of everything you do to them or tries to steal your banking information?

It's kind of a worry.

Oh, it is.

It's a nightmare scenario.

And this is the stuff that keeps me up at night because your router is quite literally the choke point for all traffic that goes in and out of your home and all of the devices that connect to your home network.

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 were 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.,