SN 1073: The FCC Bans New Consumer Routers - LinkedIn's JavaScript Bombshell
Security Now (Audio)
Leo Laporte
4.6 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 7 April 2026
⏱️ 172 minutes
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Summary
The FCC has banned all new consumer routers made outside the US, leaving networks stuck with aging, insecure hardware while blocking innovation. Find out why this sweeping move is raising eyebrows and lawsuits—and why it makes zero sense for cybersecurity.
- Apple's 26.4 age queries catches many by surprise.
- LinkedIn's 2.7 MB of privacy-invading javascript.
- Microsoft starts forcing Win11 24H2 to 25H2.
- Cisco loses source code to the Trivy supply-chain mess.
- Proton introduces privacy-first voice and video "Meet."
- GitHub to fix lagging security of its Actions feature.
- Cloudflare reaffirms the privacy of its 1.1.1.1 DNS.
- Cloudflare uses AI to re-code better secure Wordpress.
- The FCC drops a ban on all new consumer-grade routers.
Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1073-Notes.pdf
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| 0:00.0 | It's time for Security Now. Steve Gibson is here amazed at the large privacy-invading JavaScript blobbed. LinkedIn is forcing on people. We'll talk about that. And what does Steve think of the FCC router ban? Hmm. That's coming up next on Security Now. |
| 0:20.0 | Podcasts you love. |
| 0:21.6 | From people you trust. |
| 0:24.2 | This is Twit. |
| 0:29.4 | This is Security Now with Steve Gibson, episode 173, recorded Tuesday, April 7th, 2026. |
| 0:38.5 | The FCC bans new consumer routers. |
| 0:42.0 | It's time for security now, the show we cover the latest security, privacy, and other stuff. |
| 0:47.9 | With this guy, right, yeah, Mr. Steve Gibson. |
| 0:51.6 | It is true, my friend. |
| 0:52.9 | It is true. |
| 0:53.6 | It is once again, once again, Tuesday. |
| 0:58.0 | Yeah. |
| 0:58.7 | How did that happen? |
| 1:00.0 | Yeah. |
| 1:00.5 | Well, Leo, if 168 hours go by. |
| 1:05.5 | And it hasn't always been. |
| 1:06.9 | I like being here on Tuesday. |
| 1:08.6 | It used to annoy me when we were on, I think we're on Monday for a while and three-day weekends would cancel a podcast. |
| 1:15.8 | No, this is a good day. |
| 1:16.7 | Hey, you know what? |
| 1:17.9 | If a Wednesday would work better, you just let me know. |
| 1:20.4 | No. |
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