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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
ELI5: What's going on with the FCC and wifi?
gpt
Many WiFi devices are actually fairly capable 'software defined radios'. They are capable of doing much more than transmit at low power on the small range of channels that are assigned to WiFi. So someone could create new software for them to make them transmit on other channels, including channels that FCC has exclusively licensed to other people.

FCC wants to prevent this by legislating that any device with a WiFi transmitter be built so only the original software can be run on it. That is making the rest of us angry, because the original software on these things is always insecure rubbish, and manufacturers almost never provide updates, even for serious security holes. We need to be able to replace the software, to fix problems ourselves.