On 01/08/16 10:19 PM, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote:
Alternative solutions:
a) customers must not be allowed to replace the software (pretty easy and cheap; works on existing hardware)
Only (a) can be retrofitted on existing hardware. TP-Link did the obvious thing. I hate it (as a customer who actually bought one of their devices to run OpenWRT). But it really is a choice between (a) and (z) on existing devices.
They seem to have done (a) and imposed a very bad configuration. I'm at work right now, but will respond at length when I get a moment. I also expect to hear from Dave Taht just about any time now (He and Vint Cerf were the lead respondents form the open source community to the FCC: I was their editor) --dave -- David Collier-Brown, | Always do right. This will gratify System Programmer and Author | some people and astonish the rest davecb@spamcop.net | -- Mark Twain