Aussie gov't tells volunteers to throw out thousands of functioning test routers

Ars Technica
By Scharon HardingJul 8, 2026, 2:10 pm125 pts
Last week, thousands of SamKnows routers were bricked after a government program ran its course. In 2020, as part of a program conducted by the Australian Competition & Consumer Commission (ACCC), the Australian government's chief competition regulator, thousands of volunteers received routers to help test and…

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