[Bloat] Feb 12th: FCC virtual roundtable to gather public input on how to structure the new Emergency Broadband Benefit Program

[Michael Richardson]

Dave Taht <dave.taht at gmail.com> wrote:
    > It might be useful for some of us to crash this. I've always kind of
    > thought that having a "router reclamation center" where users could
    > drop off old, but reflashable routers, and get theirs reflashed with
    > openwrt, might be a useful government program.

YES.  Like a needle exchange.
It makes huge sense because of the pandemic (need for fq_codel), and because
of the national security risk of these old devices.
Ideally, it would take any router at all, and would properly dispose of those
devices which are deemed way too old.  (If there were 1000s of some
unsupported model, then maybe someone would start hacking...)

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