Carmi Levy

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.

And some internet communication is encrypted.

So yes, like even if a copy of it gets sent to some foreign country or some hacker group, they may not be able to peek what's inside.

But imagine this, a bank outfits its offices with a router.

Yes, the communications are encrypted.

So if there's any bad software on those routers, they can't necessarily read it.

But what if there's just like a kill switch?

What if every bank, you know, office had these wireless routers and these hardwired routers in them?

And then all of a sudden some foreign countries like, well, we could maybe profit if we took that bank offline for an hour.