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Re:New FCC Rules May Prevent Installing OpenWRT on WiFi Rout... by x5n1 on Monday July 27, 2015 @11:40PM (#9959386)
So the FCC is very interested in reducing the security of routers and getting all users of routers hacked. Good job FCC, you are the best. I guess they are concerned about the router firmware letting you configure routers in such a way as to cause interference. The proper way to address that is to inform the makers of router firmware and force them to comply, I am sure the US government is more than capable of doing that, even if the FCC is not.
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Re:New FCC Rules May Prevent Installing OpenWRT on WiFi Rout... by GigabyteCoin on Monday July 27, 2015 @11:59PM (#9959435)
I can think of another three letter agency that might very well have suggested this new "security measure" be implemented. /tinfoilhat
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Re:New FCC Rules May Prevent Installing OpenWRT on WiFi Rout... by plaguuuuuu on Tuesday July 28, 2015 @12:06AM (#9959458)
To be fair, you're talking about an agency that provably intercepted deliveries of Cisco hardware and installed backdoors in them.

I don't think it's particularly far fetched.

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Re:New FCC Rules May Prevent Installing OpenWRT on WiFi Rout... by JoshTriplett on Tuesday July 28, 2015 @12:40AM (#9959557)
> To be fair, you're talking about an agency that provably intercepted deliveries of Cisco hardware and installed backdoors in them.

I'm unsurprised, but do you have a link for that? I'd like to read more about it.

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Re:New FCC Rules May Prevent Installing OpenWRT on WiFi Rout... by MichaelApproved on Tuesday July 28, 2015 @12:47AM (#9959580)
http://www.engadget.com/2014/05/16/nsa-bugged-cisco-routers/

More here https://www.google.com/search?q=intercept+cisco+routers&ie=u...

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Re:New FCC Rules May Prevent Installing OpenWRT on WiFi Rout... by GigabyteCoin on Tuesday July 28, 2015 @12:46AM (#9959576)
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/05/photos-of-an-nsa-...
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Re:New FCC Rules May Prevent Installing OpenWRT on WiFi Rout... by abrichr on Tuesday July 28, 2015 @12:49AM (#9959588)
HN submission from 440 days ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7737648

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