Re: [Cake] [Battlemesh] [OpenWrt-Devel] the cerowrt project's letter to the fcc about the wifi lockdown is nearly final

[Benjamin Henrion <zoobab@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Oct 6, 2015 at 3:49 PM, Linus Lüssing <linus.luessing@c0d3.blue> wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 06, 2015 at 02:13:36AM +0200, Dave Taht wrote:
>> Comment away!
>
> There are many good points made in this text.
>
> I like the Volkswagen example and the suggestion to require
> opening up the firmware.
>
> For the latter, had been thinking about that before briefly,
> but kind of dismissed it early, basically because the reasoning in
> my head was that FCC shouldn't make any requirements regarding
> the form of the software at all. They should only regulate the
> result.

Blobs cannot be trusted to do the right thing.

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