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RF laws have teeth and enforcement and the other laws don't. You get in actual trouble if your device violates FCC broadcast regulations, and you have to get yo
by electroly 3y ago
RF laws have teeth and enforcement and the other laws don't. You get in actual trouble if your device violates FCC broadcast regulations, and you have to get your device certified before you're allowed to sell it. There's no law that gets you, the device manufacturer, in trouble if someone hacks your device and gets it to port scan or violate copyright, and no mandatory certification that those things are impossible on your device. Hell, you won't even get in trouble for doing the copyright infringement yourself (e.g. GPL violations). Ditto for literally shipping app-side malware from the factory (e.g. sketchy Chinese phones).
- gary_0 3y agoAlso, knowing whether copyright or the CFAA has been violated might require a lengthy court case between the accused and the purported legitimate owner. RF violations are an FCC guy with an antenna telling you to cut it out. Everything is explicitly licensed by the Feds ahead of time, copyright and computer access usually isn't.