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Attacking My Landlord's Boiler

Please do your due diligence and check local laws before attempting anything I do in this post. Transmitting radio signals can become legally problematic very quickly, and the band I specifically transmit on here ( 868Mhz) is illegal in the United States without a license.

From my understanding, they were getting nabbed at customs in a lot of countries that were getting pissy about importing a scawy hacking tool, so they just decided to nuke all the listings rather than deal with it. There are some obvious ethical (and probably a few technical) problems with cheap clones of what is meant to be open-source hardware, but I figured it'd be fine for my small use case. A kind lawyer has written up the implications of this law for self-run blogs like this one and the only way to guarantee that I am not in-scope would be to manually review all comments made before being available to the public.

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