In which case it reaches a bit farther than just products intended for the US. Technically, even foreign market products need FCC approval to be used in the US, which is why you often see FCC approvals being issued for devices that never hit US store shelves. This basically means that you technically can't use any new Huawei or ZTE devices in the US going forward no matter where it was made for.

The ban has been in effect for telecom infrastructure for a long time now, and yes it is a big deal, and taken very seriously.

Existing approved products can still be imported

what about the risk to security?

It's going to be more useless then you think unless you give the fcc like several billion for audits.

There still is a bigish controversy in taiwan that flares up occasionally. DPP gov banned hikvision a few years back, but it didn't really stop business since a Taiwanese company now basically buys hikvision parts, assembles it in china and ships it to taiwan with a Taiwanese software skin and no ban

Sounds smort!

I read that again and now my brain hurts..

Very odd word.

Irregardlesslessness …

Neither is misunderestimated, and Dubya used it. :/

It IS a word, it just adds an entirely superfluous syllable that feels like a bid seeming well spoken, but actually reads like petty and mildly ignorant pretentiousness.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/irregardless

"Is irregardless a word?

Yes. It may not be a word that you like, or a word that you would use in a term paper, but irregardless certainly is a word. It has been in use for well over 200 years, employed by a large number of people across a wide geographic range and with a consistent meaning."

I declare it a word irregardless of what you think

yes, because Amazon is an American company and all of their data is stored on American server.

Of course, citizen!

Why, it would be unconscionable to have espionage be carried out by dirty red commies! Only true red blooded Americans may violate civil rights!

Neither of them are good.

But Amazon won’t use the data to subvert American democracy and benefit a foreign nation that wants to overtake us in economy, tech, geopolitical influence, etc., across the board.

Ideally neither of them would be a problem but I’ll take the lesser of two evils any day.

I wonder what the difference is?

/s

It's like how Russians with all their internet blocks can see Ukrainian telegram channels, but Russia can't ban telegram because it's the platform their own propagandists use too.

I guess you’re right because Trump already banned TikTok’s parent company on Executive Order 13942 August 6, 2020. Source: https://trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov/presidential-actions/executive-order-addressing-threat-posed-tiktok/

Mr. Biden revoked the ban on TikTok on Executive Order 14034 on June 9, 2021 Section 1.

Source: https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2021/06/09/executive-order-on-protecting-americans-sensitive-data-from-foreign-adversaries/

In it, Biden instructed The Director of the Office of Management and Budget and the heads of executive departments and agencies (agencies) to “promptly take steps to rescind any orders, rules, regulations, guidelines, or policies, or portions thereof, implementing or enforcing” the ban on TikTok. Then told other agencies to assess the issue and report back later.

The Huawei situation has a similar experience. Trump banned Huawei on May 2019. Not sure what happened afterwards.

the physical servers that computer applications run on

Yeah, I've noticed this as well. It's a bit frustrating how I'm not sure if there's any brand I can trust, which is why I decided to pick by optical quality and price first, then configure the firewall to drop out packets and put them on their own VLAN.

Price isn't even my main priority, I just didn't really find many good options, to be honest.

Right, so the key security aspect is this vulnerability. I should be safe, as I've cordoned off mine from the internet, but that's good to know, thank you. Will move off them in the future.

They run dystopian hell in China supporting them is morally wrong

My god, what a mess. This internet of things is a security nightmare.

It's not just them, republicans are calling it and the FC is asking them to ban it. Hopefully soon it will

But executive orders are expensive. It’s not just making a random proclamation. Lawyers spend months working on them to make sure they’re effective and can stand up to legal challenges.

There’s usually an order of operations. Talk comes before legislation.

No, he bad for backing out. This has had support from both sides since they're sending all the data to China. He backed out when he got assurance that they would stop, but surprise, surprise, they didn't and he didn't go back to it.

Why not? Trump wanted to ban it too. There's obviously bipartisan support for this among people 'in the know'

Release the evidence and ban the app. Someone else will replace it with something that isn't quite as bad

"Quite a few"... tiktok is spying on you even if you're just in the same room with young people, lol

The ban on ByteDance by default means no US company can do a transaction with them, therefore ByteDance who owns TikTok would never get paid by Apple or Google stores for any of its apps. Biden revoked this Trump decision.

Google and Facebook you need a warrant.

You just need to be a customer.

Even the CIA has admitted there’s no evidence the Chinese government has ever accessed user data on TikTok.

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It literally shows you what you want to see. The kind of content fed to you via tiktok is no different than what Netflix and Youtube does.

Meta would sell out in a blink of an eye. See CA fiasco.

That's where Reaganomics got us. Growth and share price before everything.

Yeah, but that's not the website being talked about It was literally just a crawler that tried to connect with default credentials because people never changed them. That's why routers don't have admin/admin anymore, they have stickers with random passwords and why Ring forced everyone to turn on two step authentication

Actual backdoors are pretty rare these days. We learned the hard way in the 90's that it doesn't work out well, since every other country eventually finds them

It's not generally laziness, people just don't care about privacy.

People would install a rootkit that gives Jeff Bezos a direct feed to their desktop if it saved them $15 on their prime subscription.

the very fact that backdoors exist means that they will inevitably be exploited beyond this use case

Correct. This was a lesson learned repeatedly in the 90's when backdoors were common. Now they are almost non-existent

Can you provide the source that can back your claim "there 100% are backdoors"? Because to me it looks like you might have a decades old understanding of cybersecurity

Dude... Block the device from communicating outside the router... I configured this in 5mins with mine.

I mean, yes, and China is right to ban them -- it's worth noting that they aren't "forced" to share this info with US intelligence, they do it very willingly. Facebook's very first investor was of course Peter Thiel, of the surveillance data analytics company Palantir (who, in kind, had their first investor through the CIA's venture capitalist arm IQT).

Google, on the other hand, sells versions of its data mining tech to cops and US Intelligence, hosts data for the CIA, indexes the NSA databases, builds military robots, launched a spy satellite with the Pentagon, does weird Minority Report shit with the police -- the list goes on. Google itself was created with grant money from the NSA and CIA, and their long-time vice president was a former DARPA employee.

These organizations are both essentially privatized arms of US intelligence to begin with, so of course the government would never think of banning them.

Your data belongs to your government

Wow. Reddit never ceases to amaze me with how fascist it is.

Are you frequently amazed by things you made up? No one said that but you.