I hope things like hardware made by/for openwrt remain available, but it sounds like they will cease to be?
It seems like professional equipment will not be affected:
While the FCC’s Covered List makes it sound like the US is banning all “routers produced in a foreign country,” it’s defined a bit more narrowly than that. It’s specifically banning “consumer-grade routers” as defined in NIST Internal Report 8425A, which refers to ones “intended for residential use and can be installed by the customer.”
It seems like professional equipment will not be affected:
That’s not reassuring. It sounds like they don’t want home users to be able to get any router they could manage themselves.
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onin the headI’m not sure their like bananapi based router would be considered professional. More home tinkerer
I’m not sure what that’ll mean for the impact of this change, but I guess we’ll see 🤷🏻♂️
Yeah, I’m not too worried for enthusiasts. imho, this is a bigger deal for the 99% of the rest of everyone. So, like, kinda a big deal.
And, like, the erosion of civil liberties and human rights, and the rise of fascism. If you care about those.