[kwlug-disc] FCC Rules Block use of Open Source

[Raymond Chen]

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.

On Sat, Sep 12, 2015 at 3:12 PM, Bob Jonkman <bjonkman at sobac.com> wrote:

> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
> Hash: SHA1
>
> Whatever DRM is applied to routers &c, someone will crack it soon
> enough, OpenWRT, DD-WRT and Tomato will all work again, and then we
> all become criminals.
>
> - --Bob.
>
> Bob Jonkman <bjonkman at sobac.com>          Phone: +1-519-635-9413
> Candidate  for the Green Party of Canada in  Kitchener-Conestoga
> https://bobjonkmangpc.ca/       mailto:bob.jonkman at greenparty.ca
> Vote for the person  who will best represent you in your riding!
>
>
> On 12/09/15 01:37 PM, Khalid Baheyeldin wrote:
> > There is now a campaign to persuade the FCC to reverse their stance
> > on locking router firmware, which will prevent people from flashing
> > their own OpenWRT, DD-WRT, Tomato, ...etc.
> >
> > https://libreplanet.org/wiki/Save_WiFi
> >
> > On Mon, Aug 31, 2015 at 4:02 PM, Paul Nijjar <paul_nijjar at yahoo.ca>
> > wrote:
> >> On Sun, Aug 30, 2015 at 06:01:59PM -0400, Joseph Wennechuk
> >> wrote:
> >>> http://www.itsmypart.com/fcc-rules-block-use-of-open-source/
> >>
> >> I'm glad they linked to Doctorow's piece. He called this
> >> exactly.
> >>
> >> I am much less sanguine than Chris is about this.
> >>
> >> -- http://pnijjar.freeshell.org
> >>
> >>
> >> _______________________________________________ kwlug-disc
> >> mailing list kwlug-disc at kwlug.org
> >> http://kwlug.org/mailman/listinfo/kwlug-disc_kwlug.org
> >>
> >
> >
> >
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
> Version: GnuPG v2.0.20 (GNU/Linux)
> Comment: Ensure confidentiality, authenticity, non-repudiability
>
> iEYEARECAAYFAlX0eTcACgkQuRKJsNLM5eoS5ACfd5OXG7h23jaH7b++q/4ngSiT
> 5O8AoPhpztduri4KkmZm/I7/IdJsuCQ5
> =yyrv
> -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> kwlug-disc mailing list
> kwlug-disc at kwlug.org
> http://kwlug.org/mailman/listinfo/kwlug-disc_kwlug.org
>
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://kwlug.org/pipermail/kwlug-disc_kwlug.org/attachments/20150914/0a897030/attachment.htm>