Actually it seems very similar to the example you provided.<p>A similar scenario would be if a firearms manufacturer designed a semi-automatic rifle (one trigger pull = 1 shot fired) that easily could be modified to be an automatic rifle (one trigger pull = multiple shots fired).  Former is legal, the latter is not.  If such a firearm starting becoming a favorite of criminals because of this feature, a vast majority of gun enthusiasts would have no problem with BATF requiring the manufacturer to put safeguards in place (there are perhaps a small sliver of extremists that might object, but nowhere near the degree to which an equal-but-oppositely extreme sliver of gun control advocates would have you believe).<p>The FCC is really just saying that if you make a device that you want to get certified, and it is physically capable of transmitting outside of the parameters for which it is being certified, it wants to know what steps you are putting in place to ensure that the it can&#x27;t easily be modified to do that.<p>And to answer your question - yes, people are already modifying consumer routers to use outside of Part 15... for example <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.broadband-hamnet.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.broadband-hamnet.org&#x2F;</a> ... those are licensed operators of course but anyone could do this, licensed or not.