<div dir="ltr">What's the purpose of this lockdown? To prevent individual from flashing? It sounds like Jailbreak on iPhone. If the manufacturers make their devices good enough, most users won't bother to flash.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Sep 12, 2015 at 3:12 PM, Bob Jonkman <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bjonkman@sobac.com" target="_blank">bjonkman@sobac.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----<br>
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Whatever DRM is applied to routers &c, someone will crack it soon<br>
enough, OpenWRT, DD-WRT and Tomato will all work again, and then we<br>
all become criminals.<br>
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- --Bob.<br>
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On 12/09/15 01:37 PM, Khalid Baheyeldin wrote:<br>
> There is now a campaign to persuade the FCC to reverse their stance<br>
> on locking router firmware, which will prevent people from flashing<br>
> their own OpenWRT, DD-WRT, Tomato, ...etc.<br>
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> <a href="https://libreplanet.org/wiki/Save_WiFi" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://libreplanet.org/wiki/Save_WiFi</a><br>
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> On Mon, Aug 31, 2015 at 4:02 PM, Paul Nijjar <<a href="mailto:paul_nijjar@yahoo.ca">paul_nijjar@yahoo.ca</a>><br>
> wrote:<br>
>> On Sun, Aug 30, 2015 at 06:01:59PM -0400, Joseph Wennechuk<br>
>> wrote:<br>
>>> <a href="http://www.itsmypart.com/fcc-rules-block-use-of-open-source/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://www.itsmypart.com/fcc-rules-block-use-of-open-source/</a><br>
>><br>
>> I'm glad they linked to Doctorow's piece. He called this<br>
>> exactly.<br>
>><br>
>> I am much less sanguine than Chris is about this.<br>
>><br>
>> -- <a href="http://pnijjar.freeshell.org" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://pnijjar.freeshell.org</a><br>
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