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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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