On Thu, 26 May 2016, Daniel Golle wrote:
Hi Daniel!
On Wed, May 25, 2016 at 09:29:23PM -0400, Daniel Dickinson wrote:
...
If the FCC hadn't already completely knobbish and basically eliminated
(or least required one to be much more determined and skilled) the
ability to use OpenWrt/LEDE on new routers in the US anyway, I might
have some objection (I'm not in the US but Canada will almost certainly
adopt similar legislation since our government tends to do what the US
wants, putzes that they are) on the grounds of leading to trouble.
As it is, for new wireless routers, the US, and probably soon Canada,
are shut out from participating in OpenWrt/LEDE anyway, it's pretty much
moot point for those of us here, and in sane parts of the world it makes
sense.
As we have learned at BattleMesh, this whole lockdown madness was
actually started in some back-office of the European Comission back
in 2014 without anyone of us noticing. As usually, if things like
that happend, we Europeans are quick to blame others eventhough it
was out own governments making that decission and then encouraging
the FCC to do the same on the other side of the Atlantic.
It's also important to note that the FCC has not passed any rules requiring a
lockdown. The posted some proposed rules that would require a lockdown, but
after the backlash have made public statements that they do not intend to block
OpenWRT or similar (and they started the 'free the settop box' project to break
existing cable lockdowns)
Linksys would not be able to say that they are not going to lock down their
devices if the FCC actually required it.
Back on topic, I think it's a good thing to default to world-wide and allow the
user to set the proper country (they should not need to know what the codes are)
be sure to have the appropriate dire warnings about deliberatly setting it
incorrectly and the trouble you could get into :-)
David Lang
AG6AH
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