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Its based on CeroWRT/OpenWRT, see here: https://github.com/EFForg/OpenWireless

Hopefully any interesting new features or fixes will get pushed upstream.

Yea, that's surprising. Looking at their github repo it looks pretty hopeless to backport their improvements into LuCI/OpenWrt/CeroWrt.

To me it would make more sense to either a) help improve LuCI/OpenWrt/CeroWrt or b) educate consumers about which commercial Wi-Fi routers are good/bad from a security perspective. Their current approach seems to do neither.

I would guess that they want the default behaviour and user experience different to OpenWRT's goals.

If UX is a must, then Gargoyle is an option: http://www.gargoyle-router.com/