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FCC Orders TP-Link to Allow Third-Party Firmware on Their Routers

posted by n1 on Thursday August 04 2016, @03:26AM   Printer-friendly
from the open-carefully dept.

MrPlow writes:

Submitted via IRC for TheMightyBuzzard

The Federal Communications Commission's Enforcement Bureau has reached a $200,000 settlement with TP-Link in regards to selling in the US routers that could operate at output levels higher that allowed by FCC rules.

At the same time, TP-Link has also agreed to work with the open-source community and Wi-Fi chipset manufacturers to enable consumers to install third-party firmware on their Wi-Fi routers.

Source: Help Net Security

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  • (Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 04 2016, @12:00PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 04 2016, @12:00PM (#384024)

    Yeah, but isn't it already trivial to create a "2.4GHz radio bomb"? Just defeat the door interlock on a microwave oven. With roughly 1kW of power, you probably don't even need to bend the frequency into the WiFi range (microwave ovens are usually a bit higher) to deafen any nearby WiFi devices.

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