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.
old models still work..
openwrt.. the "linux" of router operating systems..
plan ahead while they still let you.
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.
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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