[aselzer]

Isn't this as ridiculous as saying all Android phones should be un-flashable and locked-down since you could increase transmit power in the Linux shell, or laptops are no longer allowed to boot Linux, since you could just use your built-in WiFI to jam others. There has to be a line drawn somewhere, how do you really classify a router as a router?

The more "dangerous" WiFi modules are probably not router chips, since they are usually based on closed-source drivers/firmware, but rather ones like the ath9k ones.

Possibly the only good thing that this will accomplish is the emergence of open source hardware/software "routers".