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

Sun Sep 6 15:24:54 UTC 2015

Even if other countries chose not to implement the same rules, due to the sheer size of the markets (US + EU) manufacturers would have to implement this everywhere, as country specific modifications do not scale.

Now, they can produce a device once and the regdomain is set to US, EU, etc. 

This does not only affect the US or Europe, but anyone who wants to use alternative firmware, worldwide.

The intention of this proposed rulemaking is unclear to me, and I think it would be ineffective. Security measures have been broken in the past. This change would just add uncertainty and increase device cost.

Alex

On September 6, 2015 5:03:02 PM GMT+08:00, "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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