From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-oi0-x22e.google.com (mail-oi0-x22e.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:4003:c06::22e]) (using TLSv1 with cipher RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by huchra.bufferbloat.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 44C3721F716; Mon, 19 Oct 2015 15:52:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: by oiao187 with SMTP id o187so50620186oia.3; Mon, 19 Oct 2015 15:52:20 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=kLhPfPa226XWEkOy3n72pnMfzDwWyB2cpbX0y2i8RAo=; b=poLtsMcQDp0EAQXuUPwQLWMfTZ/pkPMYJrbW/LylV4In8lGWJnsTp6ALlOryiSJvwb zsh4zXyLxS7O6nIZw6EQ9bPz0qC5zM2nk14gHxIPPbEHmsuXdeh2YyjoR1c8iCvyj0pK hSO4Kb0s6kk6JxcsatrCr3zipNQJPDE+Ev2FWPSCDKLVM0fGA/bMmPWj/+SkxgOnvWqv FgOStTLVhYsYTT9Tz2xmcdHBFYTrlC3AEa4kzVLBmQnpzgzPbrehsbuW94uyiEgaYKhL T7IfznzYmFbB/aPEF+jPjf1vOt5oRMESKZuKIEFVPjCNZ7BByvMQz8jD+bcFmdG5OJrb kCOQ== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.202.79.215 with SMTP id d206mr12756697oib.110.1445295140616; Mon, 19 Oct 2015 15:52:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.202.108.212 with HTTP; Mon, 19 Oct 2015 15:52:20 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2015 00:52:20 +0200 Message-ID: From: Dave Taht To: bloat , make-wifi-fast@lists.bufferbloat.net, fcc@lists.prplfoundation.org, "cerowrt-devel@lists.bufferbloat.net" , OpenWrt Development List , Battle of the Mesh Mailing List Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: [Cerowrt-devel] dan gillmor nails why I just did what I did X-BeenThere: cerowrt-devel@lists.bufferbloat.net X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list List-Id: Development issues regarding the cerowrt test router project List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2015 22:52:44 -0000 From: http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2015/10/15/trans_pacific_partnershi= p_could_thwart_computer_security_research_and_tinkering.html "Surely our government isn't insane enough to thwart research designed to keep us safer in the emerging =E2=80=9CInternet of Things.=E2=80=9D Yet = tell that, for starters, to the automobile industry, where one of the world's largest car makers, Volkswagen, cheated on emissions testing by tweaking its software. This crime against humanity=E2=80=94not an exaggeration, given the massive contribution this may have made to accelerating climate change=E2=80=94was discovered by researchers who, by g= ood luck, discovered that VW's cars had been spewing vastly more pollutants than the company claimed for years. This almost certainly would have been uncovered much earlier had the industry not relied on the Digital Millennium Copyright Act to =E2=80=9Cprotect=E2=80=9D its softw= are from analysis; the DMCA made it illegal to circumvent =E2=80=9Cdigital restricti= ons management.=E2=80=9D Yet the automakers continue to adamantly oppose any exception to the DMCA. This TPP provision, assuming it's in the final document=E2=80=94won't it be great when our government allows us to actually see it?=E2=80=94is just one= of the many, many terrible =E2=80=9Cintellectual property=E2=80=9D arrangement= s aimed at giving corporations greater control over their customers. When software is part of a product, as it is in so many things today and almost everything tomorrow, the very concept of ownership becomes an abstraction for the alleged buyer. And when we risk harsh penalties for even attempting to repair a device that's defective, whether that's because of the seller's incompetence or venality, we are in a totally untenable, and frighteningly insecure, position. We need to be going in precisely the opposite direction, and a too-little-noticed proposal this week shows how it might be done. A group of security experts looked into the absolutely horrifying, and willful, lack of security in devices most of us use every day=E2=80=94especially the Wi-Fi routers that let us share one Internet connection among a variety of devices=E2=80=94and asked the Federal Communications Commission to intervene. In a letter to the FCC and a press release explaining their goals, more than 250 people, including Vint Cerf, one of the Internet's creators, implored the agency to make these crucial devices more secure by forcing manufacturers to be more open about how they work. Among other things, the security experts asked the FCC to require that device makers a) provide public access to =E2=80=9Csource code=E2=80=9D=E2= =80=94the programming instructions that operate the device=E2=80=94so that it can be analyzed; b) provide ongoing security updates in timely ways; and c) be prevented from selling devices that don't comply with those and other rules designed to ensure security. The FCC should make this happen yesterday. Then, regulators and Congress should extend the compelling logic of this proposal to other devices=E2=80=94notably cars and mobile phones=E2=80=94that are notoriously= riddled with flaws. Meanwhile, it's vital that Congress not agree to the TPP as it's currently written. Thankfully, the deal is in trouble. Let's hope the odd-couple combination of a corporate-dominated Obama administration and a Republican-controlled Congress doesn't override common sense and the public good." Scientists and Engineers have a mandate to obey physical law. Lawyers, and lobbyists, not so much. Dave T=C3=A4ht I just lost several years of my life to making wifi better. And the FCC wants to mess all that up. https://www.gofundme.com/savewifi