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The FCC decided that all foreign-made consumer-grade Internet routers are prohibited from receiving FCC authorization and are therefore prohibited from being imported for use or sale in the US. (infosec.exchange)

submitted 2 weeks ago by yogthos@lemmy.ml to c/usa@lemmy.ml

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[–] lemmyng@lemmy.world 10 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I was about to argue "couldn't people just buy a Raspberry Pi and put OpenWRT or OpnSense on it?" before realizing Raspberry Pis are also seeing price increases.

Holy fuck, what the fuck are we gonna do now?!

[–] NOPper@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

There's a billion 2nd hand old laptops and stuff everywhere

[–] eldavi@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 week ago

exclusions apply: i've been building my own router out of second hand parts for the last 15 years and the pickin's are very slim rn.