Universal Software Radio Peripheral From GnuRadio

The Universal Software Radio Peripheral for GNURadio has now gone into production and is available for purchase for $450. It used to be insanely expensive to acquire this technical equipment. Now the price has dropped by two orders of magnitude, to something about as expensive as a high-end graphics card. How long will it be till it's labeled a terrorist tool and banned?

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Slashdot commentary

[daveschroeder]

How long will it be till it's labeled a terrorist tool and banned?

When HAM radio is?

Seriously, what kind of commentary is this, especially with the FCC giving unprecedented amounts of frequency bandwidth back to the public?

Couldn't the article have done just as well without the last sentence?

Re:Slashdot commentary-Paranoids on parade.

[John Miles]

Look up dual-use technology and try again.

Care to tell me what in the world that has to do with anything? A Google search on "dual-use technology" returns nothing particularly enlightening. The term usually comes up in connection with technology exports.

A receiver that covers 870-890 MHz has legitimate uses beyond monitoring AMPS cell-phone conversations, but that didn't stop the cellular lobby from buying the ECPA. What, in your obviously-informed opinion, is going to stop a similar consortium of HDTV broadcasters from buying legislation to outlaw unprotected high-bandwidth conversion hardware?

Don't you guys get tired of being paranoid every second of every day, about everything?

So sayeth the Anonymous Coward....