[ineedaj0b]

If war breaks out you better bet a bunch of equipment will turn off.

Numerous papers showing the ability to easily map indoors areas with WiFi (including occupancy) it’s a liability.

There will be excuses “tariffs” etc but I heard a few have gotten calls from three letter agencies coyly telling you to improve your systems.

It’s a chance to refresh the product line! (of course at the worst time when mem prices are bleed you dry high)

[tencentshill]

Occupancy sensing is a FEATURE on comcast home routers. It notifies you if someone is moving in the house and probably sells the occupancy data also. Makes location data from other sources far more valuable and verifiable.

[pbhjpbhj]

You mean further war? It doesn't break out, people cause it. Then those people might, for example, lie about peace talks to make $Billions on futures trades.

They're not likely to go to war against people with long-range missiles though. Even they are not demented enough for that.

[reverius42]

"Will turn off"... are you claiming that consumer-grade routers have a secret backdoor kill switch that one government or another can use to turn them off? That's a little hard to believe (even when they are security Swiss cheese).

[ineedaj0b]

Seeing the operational capability of Mossad in Iran means if desired, one should assume the US and China are equally capable.

The US didn’t make a space force to please the ego, it was likely to occur eventually. They aren’t spending all their time wargaming a moon invasion lol

Logistically, hacking tons of different model routers is not feasible. It would be more useful to yank the power grid.. which can be accomplished with missiles or software.

[reverius42]

I'm not sure what you're suggesting, exactly, but we seem to have escalated from "kill the consumer-grade WiFi routers" to "kill the entire US power grid" in one post? If anyone did that, with missiles or software, things are going to escalate very quickly from there.

[gpm]

More likely they have RCE vulnerabilities known to various governments than intentionally made secret backdoors... which is worse since a backdoor would probably at least only be usable by the county that manufactured it (for example see Jia Tan's attempted backdoor).

[FuriouslyAdrift]

The DOCSIS (Data Over Cable Service Interface Specification) standard for cable internet end user routers specifies total remote control. Most ISP originated routers are set up this way.