What the FCC router ban means for FOSS
pabs3
17 points
5 comments
April 26, 2026
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Discussion Highlights (2 comments)
briansmith
> We have been assessing our existing processes (for OpenWrt, and especially the OpenWrt One) against NIST IR 8425A, and are now accelerating those efforts to ensure we can show that routers using OpenWrt are indeed safe and secure, as determined by independent bodies. It would be awesome to have somebody show that OpenWrt-based routers are safe and secure. I looked into this problem about 10 years ago and my concluding was that stock OpenWrt was really questionable. Like, there is no auto-update story, but at the same time it is a giant (relative to what it should be, IMO) Linux distro full of vulnerability-laden components. This space is in dire need of a minimal security-first-from-the-ground-up alternative with a real trustworthy update story.
charcircuit
>see the Librem 5 (USA) for example I always assumed it was priced outrageously to have a big enough margin to start fulfilling the preorders and refund requests from the original kickstarter. The device does not sell very many units so it won't benefit from bulk pricing.