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

[John Mitchell via TriLUG]

   This came up over a month ago on Reddit (RTLSDR) where everyone thought
it would be the end of Software Defined Radios(SDR).  The FCC is looking at
regulating SDR radios that have Transmitters. (That is their Job to do
that). They are concerned about the end user changing frequencies AND
output power on their own.
   Ars Technica had a good article on this:FCC proposal:
http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/09/fcc-accused-of-locking-down-wi-fi-routers-but-the-truth-is-a-bit-murkier/
   One way for something like dd-wrt to get around this might be to not
allow you to change the Power output of the transmitter.

john mitchell

On Thu, Oct 8, 2015 at 11:15 AM, Mike Shaw via TriLUG <trilug at trilug.org>
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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