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Radio gaga: Techies fear EU directive to stop RF device tinkering will do more harm than good

DuncanLarge Silver badge

Re: What's the problem....

"Smart heaters? Smart ovens?

Botnets created from rooted routers to take down critical infrastructure."

Those are issues with networking and operating systems.

Nothing to do with RF regulation.

The bands used by WiFi, Bluetooth etc are unregulated. That means what goes, goes. Your microwave may knock out your wifi. These unregulated/unlicensed bands are available for all and thats why they are used so much. Once regulation is brought in by the back door you will not only see the death of new technologies like IOT (even if its implemented more like Internet Of Shit) but you will see the prices go way up.

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