Nobody will probably see this, but this is my take on the undertone I get from reading this:<p>&quot;Manufacturers are lazy, and hardware&#x2F;driver implementations are often buggy and not sufficiently restrictive. Lobbying the manufacturers didn&#x27;t work<i>[citation impossible]</i>, so we might need to block DD-WRT et al. on devices that are sufficiently enough that they freely allow firmware like DD-WRT (and OpenWRT) unmitigated access to the RF chip&#x27;s parameters via an insecure driver.&quot;<p>Of course they had to be much nicer and much more opaque than that, so everyone got confused.