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So..... All of them?
Does it count as "China made" if the firmware is FOSS and I load it myself? NICs and boards are pretty much all made in China, but how far does this go?
It depends on how bad China wants your porn. There could be secondary MCUs that are designed to completely bypass the original firmware. (Think Intel ME)
That is not very practical for consumer grade gear, but still possible.
This reminded me of a real life story, from the tip or my tongue so details might be inaccurate, but I remember hearing that a/the main MINIX maintainer, all of the sudden, started getting bug reports or some type of feedback from somebody, that ended up being an Intel employee looking to use MINIX for either ME or AMT.
In short, these hardware devices are 100% capable of having their own independent OS, processes with kernel and all, totally obscured from the end user.