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  • I hope things like hardware made by/for openwrt remain available, but it sounds like they will cease to be?

    It seems like professional equipment will not be affected:

    While the FCC’s Covered List makes it sound like the US is banning all “routers produced in a foreign country,” it’s defined a bit more narrowly than that. It’s specifically banning “consumer-grade routers” as defined in NIST Internal Report 8425A, which refers to ones “intended for residential use and can be installed by the customer.”


  • but consumer routers are a really significant security junction which historically has always been somewhat neglected.

    You’re right, but simply shifting the production from overseas to US doesn’t inherently make the routers more secure. The article mentions the lack of software updates for discontinued products as a big threat that has been exploited in the past.

    I only read a few sentences before the paywall stopped me,

    Fortunately, there is no paywall for me. Here is the article on archive.org.

    but sounds like they’ll whitelist any foreign manufacturers that are legitimate.

    No, the article mentions only one exception:

    Now, router makers need to A) secure a “conditional approval” that lets them keep getting new products cleared for US entry while they work to convince the government that they’ll open up manufacturing in the US, or B) make the decision to skip selling future products in the US, like dronemaker DJI already did.


















  • Under U.S. law, to prove that an AI output infringes a copyright, a plaintiff must show the copyrighted work was “actually copied”, meaning that the AI generates output which is “substantially similar” to their work, and that the AI had access to their work.[4]

    Wikipedia – AI and copyright

    I’ve found a similar formulation in a official German document before posting my above comment. Essentially, it doesn’t matter if you’ve “stolen” copied somebody else’s code yourself and used it in your work or did so by using an AI.