O'Rielly Raises Wireless Router Security Concerns
Former FCC Commissioner Mike O’Rielly raised security concerns this week about wireless routers from Chinese companies. “Bad actors can misuse wireless routers to infect millions of home networks to obtain consumer information and documents, proliferate misinformation, disrupt functionality, or cause…
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other harm,” O’Rielly wrote in a Hudson Institute blog post. “While the underlying internet infrastructure is protected by layers of encryption and other security features in its embedded standards, routers can give malicious actors entry to these systems, potentially affecting service providers, wider networks, and the global internet.” O’Rielly said policymakers should look at whether wireless routers could give China-sponsored hackers their “next entry point into U.S. networks.”