Part four of a series. Part one. Part two. Part three. Part of the Big Tech's War on Users series. TL;DR: The FCC quietly extended the firmware update deadline for banned foreign routers by two years — to 2029. Their stated reason is that enforcing the original deadline would create cybersecurity risks. The ban designed...

Part three of a series. Part one. Part two. TL;DR: The FCC approval queue kept moving. Eero got waved through. Nobody announced any US manufacturing plans. I went and checked the SEC filings. Funny story. Also: who exactly does the government trust, and why? The queue is still moving. Since part two, Amazon's eero...

A follow-up to All This Has Happened BeforePart of the Big Tech's War on Users series I told you to watch the thread. Here's what the thread looks like now. The Approval Queue Is Telling the Story Thirty days ago I said the most likely outcome was messy — some manufacturers get approved, some don't, nothing resolves...

The NSA issued a warning today: reboot your router weekly, change default passwords, update firmware, replace end-of-life hardware. Good advice. Genuinely. Do those things. Also: the same federal government that issued this warning is the one that banned new foreign router models in March, has yet to approve a single...

On March 23rd, the FCC quietly dropped a rule that affects the router sitting in your home right now. Most coverage treated it as a tech story. A few treated it as a national security story. Almost nobody followed the thread to where it actually leads. Pull the thread. Editorial note: This post refers to both...