[TriLUG] FYI - FCC seeks comments regarding prevention of users flashing the firmware of devices containing radio transmitters

[Mike Shaw via TriLUG]

Another site you may want to visit is this one put up by the Electronic
Frontier Foundation:

<https://www.DearFCC.org/>

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On Thu, Oct 8, 2015 at 11:15 AM, Mike Shaw <mdshaw89 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Just saw this -
>
> The Federal Communications Commission seeking comments on preventing users
> from flashing the firmware of devices that contain radio transmitters.
> (So this would affect Open-WRT on wireless routers, Cyanogenmod on mobile
> devices, etc.)  If you don't want the FCC to restrict users from doing this
> -- or
> want to know why you should not want them to restrict this, visit:
>
>   <http://www.savewifi.org/>
>
> which re-directs to:
>
>   <https://libreplanet.org/wiki/Save_WiFi/Individual_Comments>
>
> Comments are due October 9th!
>
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> "Yeah right, man. That's a typo. Orwell is here now. He's livin' large. We
> have no names, man. No names. We are nameless!" - Cereal Killer, from the
> movie Hackers(1995)
>