• whatevercomeon@lemmy.world
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    4 hours ago

    I do not belive it feasible to police personal consumer WAPs or force mac address filtering on them. Perhaps they will block the mac addresses on govt APs.

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      3 hours ago

      The rabbit hole I went into to get my smartphone to work in this country has taught me that Google silently placed controls that American carriers wanted into all Android builds since at least version 12 so it’s not hard to imagine that the likes of Netgear or Linksys doing something similar to the stock firmware of thier home routers in the near future, when Uncle Sam inevitably tells them to.

      In at&t’s & signia’s case: Uncle Sam hasn’t said anything yet, they decided to pre-comply out of their own accord; so it doesn’t even have to be a law.