[wsfii-discuss] America's crackdown on open-source Wi-Fi router firmware – THE TRUTH and how to get involved

[Armin Medosch]

Hi,

there is already a pretty hot debate about this on the German Freifunk and
the Austrian Funkfeuer list. It seems that the EU has smuggled similar
provisions into a directive which is already in force but has yet to be
implemented by nations. For any further information please consult well
known Freifunk/Funkfeuer activists as I lack the time currently to
investigate this in more depth, but it looks bad ...😬

best
Armin


On Sun, Sep 6, 2015 at 11:03 AM, Ramnarayan.K <ramnarayan.k at gmail.com>
wrote:

> So what implications is this going to have on the Open Source Firmwares
> for wifi routers and all the associated software / methods.
>
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/09/05/fcc_software_updates/
>
> The aricle is a fairly long one , so am not posting the text.
>
> Seems to me this ia a fairly direct attack on any method of altering any
> computing device in anyway. First we had UEFI and now this.
>
> While it seems centred on the US, it doesn't take much time for certain
> other parties to jump onto the bandwagon, and also in places where much of
> the equipment is drawn from US sources.
>
> ram
> (India)
>
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