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It's already a violation of the law to import and sell routers with unlocked firmware
by jjawssd 9y ago
It's already a violation of the law to import and sell routers with unlocked firmware
- abritinthebay 9y agoIsn't that due to FCC regulations. It's not illegal if you work out how to do it yourself (hard, not always impossible).
- Larrikin 9y agoWhy is this illegal?
- SXX 9y agoBecause if you can control or modify radio firmware then it's can usually operate outside of certified range and power. Most of routers use same hardware for all markets while radio regulations are different. So limits are enforced per-country in software and it's easier for manufacturers to completely lock down devices.
- noir_lord 9y agoYup, I'm in the UK and dd-wrt allows me to push my router power output far beyond the legal spec (since the actual router can support that but is software limited). I didn't because I'm a good neighbour and it's not a massive apartment.
- mnw21cam 9y agoUm. So, if I have a laptop, running Linux, with a built-in ethernet port, and plug in a USB ethernet adaptor, it is suddenly illegal to import it? Crazy.
- jjawssd 9y agoNo