Episode 207 • • 1:33:02 - 1:40:44
207: What do you call Soy milk?
Sam Knows Secret Sauce and FCC Router Surveillance
The FCC has partnered with a UK-based company called Sam Knows to embed "secret sauce" software into consumer routers, starting with Netgear models. While marketed as a tool to measure broadband speeds, the technology is criticized as a potential backdoor for government surveillance of internet traffic. The company's opaque corporate structure and use of privacy-shielding services for its domain registration have raised significant red flags.