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America's crackdown on open-source Wi-Fi router firmware – THE TRUTH

DropBear

Re: Software Defined Idiots

Radio hardware that can be arbitrarily reconfigured in software has been the norm for at least a decade - by now, there isn't ANY vaguely current radio equipment left that ISN'T some form of SDR. Many of those have enjoyed open-source support for a very long time now. It's not impossible to misuse them, but usually you really, really have to be trying. Curiously though, the sky hasn't fallen yet. So let's either back off and regulate actual misuse on a case-by-case basis or start banning things like knives, considering how widely they can be misused as well...

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