In an era of remote work and countless streaming services, it's difficult to imagine life without not just the internet, but Wi-Fi. An April 2024 report by Parks Associates found 80 percent of American households with home internet access also had a wireless router, allowing them to get online without having to sit by a particular wall port.

Now, the federal government is fanning Americans' hysteria about China in an attempt to ban the sale of a particular company's wireless routers.

"More than a half-dozen federal departments and agencies backed a proposal to ban future sales of the most popular home routers in the United States on the grounds that the vendor's ties to mainland China make them a national security risk," Joseph Menn reported last week at The Washington Post .

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