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

[Matt Flyer via TriLUG]

My first thought was who is paying for this?  With the immediate
conclusion that it is cell phone companies that don't want people opting
to use non provider software.

My second thought was those who want to put back doors into encryption
into software such as cell phones that would in turn be controlled by a
provider.

Somehow I doubt that without congressional backlash that the FCC has a
prayer of listening to We The People.

In addition to making FCC comments, we should be pounding on the doors of
our elected representatives:
http://www.ncleg.net/representation/WhoRepresentsMe.aspx

My third thought is that this is going to have as much compliance as gun
registry does in places like NY and CT - meaning nearly none at all.

> 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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> have no names, man. No names. We are nameless!" - Cereal Killer, from the
> movie Hackers(1995)
>
> 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!
>>
>> ---
>> "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)
>>
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