FCC exempts Netgear from ban on foreign routers, doesn't explain why

For the sake of efficiency, FCC should publish

1. The name of the person your company must bribe

2. How much it would cost you.

Aren't most routers foreign made?

So a ban is basically shutting down the router market.

And exempting Netgear is arbitrary and hypocritical. Essentially, government has anointed a marketplace winner.

2 days ago with 75 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47773448

Thus far Netgear has been keeping up technologically, but only because of good competition. The moment this competition goes away, so will the innovation, and we will left with obsolete hardware.

The NSA appears to be systematically compromising multiple government agencies like a bad virus. NIST and now the FCC appear compromised.

Can someone please decompile, reverse engineer, and assess the code of the Netgear firmware to find backdoors? Odds are that they go back a decade, meaning that both old and new firmware is likely to have the vulnerabilities. Look for code that is common among firmwares. What is the magic packet that executes arbitrary instructions and opens the door? The firmware has got to be in C and C++, so there is heavy opportunity for serious flaws.

Golden router or peace board donation

because Netgear is willing to do what the US wants in regards to its mass surveillance projects.

Now you know which brand is really compromised

Donation and ICE agent backdoor installed.