It's not getting enough attention that the Trump administration has banned the sale of ALL WiFi routers made outside of the US.
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old models still work..
openwrt.. the "linux" of router operating systems..
plan ahead while they still let you.
@Felis_Catus_Domesticus @VeroniqueB99 Will/can openwrt eliminate any hdware spy that Gov could require?
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It's not getting enough attention that the Trump administration has banned the sale of ALL WiFi routers made outside of the US. It's one of the first steps required to control Americans' use of the Internet, to spy on what you're doing online, to suppress information they don't want you to see and to even turn off the Internet at their discretion.
This is looking increasingly like a trap.
FCC imposes sweeping ban on foreign-made routers, affecting all new models
Trump admin to decide which router makers get exemptions from FCC import ban.
Ars Technica (arstechnica.com)
@VeroniqueB99
The US NSA has always been spying on online activity--there are words that flag conversations etc....
All Canadian internet runs north-south through the US, often when we are accessing websites, even within our own city it jumps to and fro, and that's one of the reasons why we outside your borders need digital sovereignty.And they can spy on your wifi even if you use non-US made products
Researchers map the Internet’s “boomerang routes” where data transfers between Canadians move through the US, increasing exposure to state surveillance
Team at University of Toronto launches new mapping tool to help Canadians understand the movement of their Internet data Toronto, ON – Researchers at the University of Toronto announced today that IXmaps, a visual, interactive database of Internet traffic routes, is now live. The tool, funded by the .CA Community Investment Program, helps Canadians understand […]
(nationtalk.ca)
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It's not getting enough attention that the Trump administration has banned the sale of ALL WiFi routers made outside of the US. It's one of the first steps required to control Americans' use of the Internet, to spy on what you're doing online, to suppress information they don't want you to see and to even turn off the Internet at their discretion.
This is looking increasingly like a trap.
FCC imposes sweeping ban on foreign-made routers, affecting all new models
Trump admin to decide which router makers get exemptions from FCC import ban.
Ars Technica (arstechnica.com)
@VeroniqueB99 For those unaware, a PC can be used for routing. But PC's have had their own spyware chip since about 2010 (IME). A better solution is a fast Rasp. Pi (No spychip).
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@Felis_Catus_Domesticus @VeroniqueB99 Will/can openwrt eliminate any hdware spy that Gov could require?
provided the "spy" is software based, not hardware based. If it's hardware based, then all you can do it is not use the device. Find some other device, if one exists. I'm sure that as the situation develops more info about hardware will begin to come to the fore in the news as public consciousness shifts.
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@Felis_Catus_Domesticus @VeroniqueB99 Will/can openwrt eliminate any hdware spy that Gov could require?
any hdware spy that Gov could require?
although the way this is worded, your precise meaning is a little unclear.
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provided the "spy" is software based, not hardware based. If it's hardware based, then all you can do it is not use the device. Find some other device, if one exists. I'm sure that as the situation develops more info about hardware will begin to come to the fore in the news as public consciousness shifts.
@Felis_Catus_Domesticus @VeroniqueB99 That's what I thought, it's been years since I used DD-WRT. I suspect it's a whole new software by now. Getting to old for all the changes, part of the reason I won't own a cellphone. I just don't like the idea of a leash . . . 8*)
Peace
Thanks.
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any hdware spy that Gov could require?
although the way this is worded, your precise meaning is a little unclear.
@Felis_Catus_Domesticus @VeroniqueB99 You got just what I was asking. . . Again Thanks
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@Felis_Catus_Domesticus @VeroniqueB99 You got just what I was asking. . . Again Thanks
security down to the components on the board itself is such a deep rabbit hole to dive down. I mean how trustworthy or truly impartial are the chi-coms, in the end? They've been making all our shit for 40+ years now. How do we know they haven't backdoored the shit out of things they sell down at the component level? Some things you just can't know with any certainty in this world, sadly.
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It's not getting enough attention that the Trump administration has banned the sale of ALL WiFi routers made outside of the US. It's one of the first steps required to control Americans' use of the Internet, to spy on what you're doing online, to suppress information they don't want you to see and to even turn off the Internet at their discretion.
This is looking increasingly like a trap.
FCC imposes sweeping ban on foreign-made routers, affecting all new models
Trump admin to decide which router makers get exemptions from FCC import ban.
Ars Technica (arstechnica.com)
@VeroniqueB99 Brendan Carr needs his ass paddled on live television.
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@Felis_Catus_Domesticus @VeroniqueB99 That's what I thought, it's been years since I used DD-WRT. I suspect it's a whole new software by now. Getting to old for all the changes, part of the reason I won't own a cellphone. I just don't like the idea of a leash . . . 8*)
Peace
Thanks.
yeah DD-WRT days were a long time ago. Install is as easy as uploading an image via the web interface in the stock firmware then reboot. Done. Updates for complicated setups can be complicated, but for basic wifi router it's as simple as it gets. A few clicks, reboot, done..
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security down to the components on the board itself is such a deep rabbit hole to dive down. I mean how trustworthy or truly impartial are the chi-coms, in the end? They've been making all our shit for 40+ years now. How do we know they haven't backdoored the shit out of things they sell down at the component level? Some things you just can't know with any certainty in this world, sadly.
@Felis_Catus_Domesticus @VeroniqueB99 The only folks I have any trust in are the Linux/open software folks. I suspected that it would be a simple install at this point, I started with Linux in the mid 90's, often any more I'm making things way to complicated . . . 8*)
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@Felis_Catus_Domesticus @VeroniqueB99 That's what I thought, it's been years since I used DD-WRT. I suspect it's a whole new software by now. Getting to old for all the changes, part of the reason I won't own a cellphone. I just don't like the idea of a leash . . . 8*)
Peace
Thanks.
way less fuckery than with cell phones. I run lineageOS on all my phones. I put up with the pain and the fuckery for the first 3 (motorolas). Now I just get pixel phones and have zero fuckery because the bootloaders are trivial to unlock, and designed to be unlocked. Motorolas- almost trivial.. and like a honda civic or toyota camry, great bang for the buck. same is true of pixel phones. good value for the $$$
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way less fuckery than with cell phones. I run lineageOS on all my phones. I put up with the pain and the fuckery for the first 3 (motorolas). Now I just get pixel phones and have zero fuckery because the bootloaders are trivial to unlock, and designed to be unlocked. Motorolas- almost trivial.. and like a honda civic or toyota camry, great bang for the buck. same is true of pixel phones. good value for the $$$
@Felis_Catus_Domesticus @VeroniqueB99 I started out with TeleType, when they put computers in that tiny little box, computers that were far more complex that the 8080-86's I just sort of gave up. . . 8*)
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@Felis_Catus_Domesticus @VeroniqueB99 That's what I thought, it's been years since I used DD-WRT. I suspect it's a whole new software by now. Getting to old for all the changes, part of the reason I won't own a cellphone. I just don't like the idea of a leash . . . 8*)
Peace
Thanks.
just get a phone that's well supported by lineage os. android that's been de-googled, and is absent all the google fuckery ain't that bad to use. more free space internally with the google cruft gone and better battery life because the phones not constantly doing shit behind your back you are unaware of and might not approve of. Also- data lines to google are stripped out of the OS. You can put them back if you wish, but by default they aren't there.
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@Felis_Catus_Domesticus @VeroniqueB99 That's what I thought, it's been years since I used DD-WRT. I suspect it's a whole new software by now. Getting to old for all the changes, part of the reason I won't own a cellphone. I just don't like the idea of a leash . . . 8*)
Peace
Thanks.
even older pixels are still quite good hardware. no need to buy the current generation for $1000+ pixels are so ahead of the curve you can get one 3-4 gens older than current and still have a very modern phone whose hardware will last you a long long time before becoming obsolete.
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@VeroniqueB99 For those unaware, a PC can be used for routing. But PC's have had their own spyware chip since about 2010 (IME). A better solution is a fast Rasp. Pi (No spychip).
@shwell @VeroniqueB99 agree.
The instructions are out there (this is an older variant)
Use Raspberry Pi 3 As Router : 10 Steps (with Pictures) - Instructables https://www.instructables.com/Use-Raspberry-Pi-3-As-Router/
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@Felis_Catus_Domesticus @VeroniqueB99 I started out with TeleType, when they put computers in that tiny little box, computers that were far more complex that the 8080-86's I just sort of gave up. . . 8*)
yeah I was at that point in the 2000's when social media was being born. All seemed like a waste of time to me. Still does, but that was one of those forks in the road of tech where it seemed like a lot of wheels were being re-invented needlessly and resources wasted, and fuckery abounding. Ditto with early smart phones. But both matured, eventually. Still, those transitions are painful. Old wisdom gets forgotten. Perhaps it was always thus.
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It's not getting enough attention that the Trump administration has banned the sale of ALL WiFi routers made outside of the US. It's one of the first steps required to control Americans' use of the Internet, to spy on what you're doing online, to suppress information they don't want you to see and to even turn off the Internet at their discretion.
This is looking increasingly like a trap.
FCC imposes sweeping ban on foreign-made routers, affecting all new models
Trump admin to decide which router makers get exemptions from FCC import ban.
Ars Technica (arstechnica.com)
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It's not getting enough attention that the Trump administration has banned the sale of ALL WiFi routers made outside of the US. It's one of the first steps required to control Americans' use of the Internet, to spy on what you're doing online, to suppress information they don't want you to see and to even turn off the Internet at their discretion.
This is looking increasingly like a trap.
FCC imposes sweeping ban on foreign-made routers, affecting all new models
Trump admin to decide which router makers get exemptions from FCC import ban.
Ars Technica (arstechnica.com)
@VeroniqueB99
One might run OpenBSD / FreeBSD / NetBSD and free himself. Or maybe use pfsense as a commercial product you can trust. -
@VeroniqueB99
One might run OpenBSD / FreeBSD / NetBSD and free himself. Or maybe use pfsense as a commercial product you can trust.#freebsd is already accepting LLM slop ...
