I believe he or she is thinking of the FCC proposal regarding software-defined radios.<p>It was widely (and incorrectly) reported as requiring all routers to have locked firmware, but that&#x27;s not really the case, and if the proposal were to go forward there are a variety of ways that the SDR could be locked down while allowing firmware updates in general.<p>It&#x27;s not clear that the FCC is even going to go forward with it, though; industry pushback was quite heavy.<p>edit: it looks like they went forward with the guidance, <i>after</i> amending it to be clear they specifically weren&#x27;t going after open-source firmware