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- Embed this notice@thaodan @blenderdumbass >you aware that modifying certain software such as radios can impact anyone around them?
Humans do not receive radio signals, thus no matter what you do with a few Watt TX cannot impact people around you.
The typical modification to done to radios is to *reduce* TX power or to mitigate signalling or interference problems caused by proprietary software.
>You could impact the security of anyone around you by sending radio signals on frequencies you are not allowed too.
This conflates security with band restrictions that have no security or interference prevention goals and solely exist for requiring payment to use such bands and nothing else.
If you want to prevent cross-channel interference, you add a bandpass filter, but of course the FCC has done their best to prevent that, by insisting on proprietary connectors for antennas.
>You could kill someone.
Free radio software has never killed anyone, while proprietary radio software combined with flaws in proprietary hardware has killed quite a few people.