hell freezes over!

Dave Ihnat dihnat at dminet.com
Fri Sep 10 12:35:21 UTC 2010


On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 09:25:25AM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> Wireless has been particularly problematic for many vendors for a long
> time because the US regulations require wireless devices are not user
> tamperable. This leads to questions like "what does that mean if it's open
> source and you can set an unapproved frequency or power by hacking the
> code"

Hmm...this especially brings up the question with respect to packages
such as DD-WRT or Tomato that totally take over and control a wireless
router.  They have no 'sanity firmware' checking them.

Cheers,
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	Dave Ihnat
	dihnat at dminet.com


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