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US congressional panel urges Americans to ditch China-made routers (www.reuters.com)

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

It seems that a few router types have WiFi + SoC setups now. (Like ones using the IPQ4019, for example.)

While that doesn't significantly reduce the risk of something nasty, it would limit places for nasty code to hide. Well, "hide" in the traditional sense, like on another chip entirely.

However, I haven't really looked into any drivers to see how these SoC's are segmented to see if its really any different than the old MCU + WiFi chipset setups.