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FCC bans sale of some foreign-made routers in the US

DukenukemX said:
Wendell from Level1Techs says NetGear has a backdoor while TP-Link doesn't. He also explains how ID verification links back to this. He even tells you how to get access to that backdoor. Remember that NetGear is approved in the USA while TP-Link isn't.

View: https://youtu.be/3NIXvqtVWso?si=BgAvz5aVHwC1EdMi
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It's almost as if the people in charge of regulating these things have absolutely no idea how anything of the things they're regulating actually work.
 
DukenukemX said:

View: https://youtu.be/3NIXvqtVWso?si=BgAvz5aVHwC1EdMi
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So, I went ahead and suffered through this video. Although I don't dislike either of the authors/hosts in this video, it seems like no one is fully immune to exaggerations and jumping to conclusions for click-bait purposes.

Toward the end of the video, we find out that the Netgear "Vulnerability" is via the USB file sharing function. Who the hell actually uses their consumer router for "file sharing" via it's USB port? I've literally never met a single person across the entire spectrum from tech enthusiast to complete tech novice who ever cared about or used that feature. He also speculated about the vulnerability being accessible from the WAN side, but made very clear that he "Did not test that". Well okay then...

Here is a link to the specific moment, toward the end of the video, were he says all of this in about one or two sentences:


View: https://youtu.be/3NIXvqtVWso?t=998
 
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GotNoRice said:
So, I went ahead and suffered through this video. Although I don't dislike either of the authors/hosts in this video, it seems like no one is fully immune to exaggerations and jumping to conclusions to click-bait purposes.

Toward the end of the video, we find out that the Netgear "Vulnerability" is via the USB file sharing function. Who the hell actually uses their consumer router for "file sharing" via it's USB port? I've literally never met a single person across the entire spectrum from tech enthusiast to complete tech novice who ever cared about or used that feature. He also speculated about the vulnerability being accessible from the WAN side, but made very clear that he "Did not test that". Well okay then...

Here is a link to the specific moment, toward the end of the video, were he says all of this in about one or two sentences:


View: https://youtu.be/3NIXvqtVWso?t=998
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Thank you for enduring the video. That's not really a vulnerability to me. The only bad thing about NEGEAR routers is they are always comically overpriced ... even when they're on sale.
 
GotNoRice said:
So, I went ahead and suffered through this video. Although I don't dislike either of the authors/hosts in this video, it seems like no one is fully immune to exaggerations and jumping to conclusions for click-bait purposes.

Toward the end of the video, we find out that the Netgear "Vulnerability" is via the USB file sharing function. Who the hell actually uses their consumer router for "file sharing" via it's USB port? I've literally never met a single person across the entire spectrum from tech enthusiast to complete tech novice who ever cared about or used that feature. He also speculated about the vulnerability being accessible from the WAN side, but made very clear that he "Did not test that". Well okay then...

Here is a link to the specific moment, toward the end of the video, were he says all of this in about one or two sentences:


View: https://youtu.be/3NIXvqtVWso?t=998
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I've heard of people using USB file sharing on their router to make the crappiest of free temu nases; but the gap between people too tech illiterate to set that up and those who'd go for a Proper Solution (tm) of some sort (similar but with an rPi, repurposed desktop, box from Synology, etc) is very small.
 
Why would anyone use their router when creating networked storage is as simple as sharing a folder in Windows, and then accessing it via IP? I can't even imagine a router would make it simpler.

I do wish Windows network discovery wasn't such dogshit, but it is what it is.
 
StoleMyOwnCar said:
Why would anyone use their router when creating networked storage is as simple as sharing a folder in Windows, and then accessing it via IP? I can't even imagine a router would make it simpler.

I do wish Windows network discovery wasn't such dogshit, but it is what it is.
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Because not everyone has a desktop/laptop on 24/7.
 
DanNeely said:
Because not everyone has a desktop/laptop on 24/7.
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Further to this, I actually used a thumb drive as a network share for a while, probably 10 years ago, and this was mainly why. I think i quit because routers and USB drives make for a terrible experience from a performance perspective, or at least did back then.
 
GotNoRice said:
So, I went ahead and suffered through this video. Although I don't dislike either of the authors/hosts in this video, it seems like no one is fully immune to exaggerations and jumping to conclusions for click-bait purposes.

Toward the end of the video, we find out that the Netgear "Vulnerability" is via the USB file sharing function. Who the hell actually uses their consumer router for "file sharing" via it's USB port? I've literally never met a single person across the entire spectrum from tech enthusiast to complete tech novice who ever cared about or used that feature. He also speculated about the vulnerability being accessible from the WAN side, but made very clear that he "Did not test that". Well okay then...

Here is a link to the specific moment, toward the end of the video, were he says all of this in about one or two sentences:


View: https://youtu.be/3NIXvqtVWso?t=998
Click to expand...

I'm not sure if you need access to USB to make use of the vulnerability? I think the way he worded it is that file sharing is the vulnerability, but it exists for USB. That doesn't mean you need to use the USB to get the vulnerability, but it exists mainly for USB file sharing. Wendell didn't get into great details about this.
 
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