I don’t like to cover “current events” very much, but the American government just revealed a truly bewildering policy effectively banning import of new consumer router models. This is ridiculous for many reasons, but if this does indeed come to pass it may be beneficial to learn how to “homebrew” a router.
Fortunately, you can make a router out of basically anything resembling a computer.
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I genuinely can’t believe making your own router with Linux or BSD might become a much more widespread thing in the US. I’m not saying it’s a bad thing – it’ll teach some people something new – but it just feels so absurd.
This sudden happening almost certainly means they’ve found another Chinese kill switch in something China makes. China accidentally flipped on the kill switch for power inverters on American solar power farms a while ago, and the U.S. government has not revealed how much damage was done, just that it happened.