-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 01/16/2014 02:55 PM, Max Mehl wrote: > Hi there, > > maybe you followed the Compulsory Routers topic in Germany during > the last months [1] and even read my blog entry about the > entanglements between Compulsory Routers and the latest NSA leaks > [2]. > > tl;dr: Compulsory Routers are routers provided by Internet Service > Providers which cannot be replaced because of technical or legal > barriers. This causes on the one hand many problems with > competition, technical innovation, and compatibility, but on the > other hand also great security risks for everyone of us: If we and > many others are forced to use one router model, ISPs create > monocultures which can be attacked more easily by miscreants and > special tools by intelligence agencies. > > I know the situation in Germany pretty well because I worked on > this issue. But gaining some knowledge of the ISPs' regulations in > other countries is harder than I thought in the first place. > > Could you please give me some insights if there are ISPs in your > country with Compulsory Router policies? Or maybe you want to share > your thoughts about this topic at all and the implications for Free > Software users. > >
I have a fiber box, a socalled residential gateway or Home Access Gateway which supplies phone, Internet and TV. Should that be considered as a compulsory router? -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iEYEARECAAYFAlLX5fEACgkQletyW1YzdSGA6gCgjosCPECKZivOG06JJb2l+YaY /rQAoI2yHaz4Vgr3TGef3m/64yZgcWiT =Z8ll -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Discussion mailing list [email protected] https://mail.fsfeurope.org/mailman/listinfo/discussion
