[NNagain] Fwd: New Exclusive Report on 'Rip and Replace'

[Dave Taht]

I have been trying to point out for many years now, that a lot of hardware
can just have it's firmware replaced with something more trustable, secure,
reliable, and feature full. I was appalled at the recent BOFO (?) rules
that mandated buy american for secure .... glass .... and totally ignored
the firmware problem. I have not read up on rip and replace progress below,
and am afraid to, if someone could summarize?

Ironically, I regard Huwai's compliance with the GPL, and general
open source contribution philosophy as exemplary in an industry that
seemingly has forgotten the benefits of openness or the copyright
provisions of that license.

The president of huwai once responded to complaints by promising to open up
all it's source code for inspection... (cannot find the link), but the
CISCOs of the world evaporated that possibility, and the mess downstream of
most chinese AND american manufacturers has to be scanned to be believed.

... a lot of huwai's consumer gear can be reflashed to OpenWrt, which is
maintained by a group of very security concious folk, mostly based in
germany.



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Emerging reports signal a growing concern among telecommunications
providers grappling with compliance to the Federal Communications
Commission's mandate to excise problematic equipment from certain Chinese
companies.

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facing the financial brunt of equipment replacement, and contending with
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