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[–] Cris_Citrus@piefed.zip 14 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (1 children)

I hope things like hardware made by/for openwrt remain available, but it sounds like they will cease to be?

My first thought was the risk of the us demanding us manufacturers include a backdoor

It sounds like the exemption for foreign companies is an option while they create plans for american manufacturing

[–] Successful_Try543@feddit.org 4 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

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.”

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 11 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

That's not reassuring. It sounds like they don't want home users to be able to get any router they could manage themselves.

[–] StealthLizardDrop@piefed.social 4 points 13 hours ago

nail ~~on~~ in the head

[–] Cris_Citrus@piefed.zip 1 points 13 hours ago

I'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 🤷🏻‍♂️