New FCC Rules May Prevent Installing OpenWRT on WiFi Routers?

Re:New FCC Rules May Prevent Installing OpenWRT on WiFi Rout... by whalesalad on Tuesday July 28, 2015 @12:18AM (#9959494)

This is backwards. Instead of regulating devices they should just enforce the law and penalize those who break it. If you're found to be violating FCC regulations you pay a fine. This is pretty standard stuff. The top-down can't-trust-users thing is such bullshit.

The government lets me own a semi automatic rifle but I can't run non-standard firmware on my router because I might hurt someone.

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Re:New FCC Rules May Prevent Installing OpenWRT on WiFi Rout... by rando3826 on Tuesday July 28, 2015 @12:27AM (#9959516)

And of course vendors still need to update the software, so people will just hack that method. Of course you will be violating the DMCA anti-circumvention statue, so it will be a felony. Not to mention this sounds like effectively mandating tivoization which would prevent them from shipping gplv3 code.

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Re:New FCC Rules May Prevent Installing OpenWRT on WiFi Rout... by iwwr on Tuesday July 28, 2015 @12:49AM (#9959587)

Vendors having to come up with an actually secure remote update procedure (rather than ad-hoc secret protocols and "factory passwords")? This is beyond the "greats" like Samsung or LG even.

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