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You've peaked my interest. Has then been new legislation that has enabled router manufacturers lock down their hardware to a point an end-user cannot change it?
by vuln 9y ago
You've peaked my interest. Has then been new legislation that has enabled router manufacturers lock down their hardware to a point an end-user cannot change it? All three organizations you name are open source and community driven. They cannot possibly write or port their firmware to every platform.
- plasticchris 9y agoParent likely refers to the 5ghz dfs rules, see https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/09/fcc-open-source-router-software-is-still-legal-under-certain-conditions/ https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/09/fcc-o...
- AdieuToLogic 9y agoI wish that were the case, but alas it is not. The article you link was unfortunately an optimistic interpretation of what not yet known to come[0]. 0 - https://www.wired.com/2016/03/way-go-fcc-now-manufacturers-locking-routers/ https://www.wired.com/2016/03/way-go-fcc-now-manufacturers-l...
- ynezz 9y agohttp://blog.true.cz/2017/02/free-your-router-again/#background http://blog.true.cz/2017/02/free-your-router-again/#backgrou...
- wmf 9y agoA history of the FCC router lockdown thing: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/08/fcc-forces-tp-link-to-support-open-source-firmware-on-routers/ https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/08/fcc-f...
- AdieuToLogic 9y agoNot legislation, but instead an interpretation of FCC policy. See here[0] and here[1] for more details. 0 - https://www.wired.com/2016/03/way-go-fcc-now-manufacturers-locking-routers/ https://www.wired.com/2016/03/way-go-fcc-now-manufacturers-l... 1 - https://hackaday.com/2016/02/26/fcc-locks-down-router-firmware/ https://hackaday.com/2016/02/26/fcc-locks-down-router-firmwa...