
The FCC’s ban this month on foreign-made consumer routers might not seem like a terribly exciting investing story on the surface, with the headlines featuring some standard-issue saber-rattling between the U.S. and China:
"Malicious actors have exploited security gaps in foreign-made routers to attack American households, disrupt networks, enable espionage, and facilitate intellectual property theft," according to the agency, in a reference to last year’s incidents with mainland-manufactured devices.