On Mon, Dec 01, 2014 at 04:27:25PM -0600, Eric Schultz wrote: > All, > > I work for the prpl Foundation, an open source foundation organized by > a number of companies, most related to MIPS. One project we work with > externally is the OpenWrt project. Recently one of our members > mentioned a new FCC requirement (described in FCC publication 594280) > which requires wifi hardware devices to restrict modifications in ways > that were not previously required. Some of the suggestions the company > had internally for complying would be to use features like Secure Boot > and other types of DRM-like mechanisms to prevent routers from being > modified. This obviously would be quite bad for the OpenWrt community > (and the embedded Linux community as a whole) so we agreed as a group > to try to provide hardware companies with a way of complying without > harming the community. > > I'm looking to find individuals (and other companies!) interested in > working with myself and the foundation, companies, the OpenWrt > community and eventually regulators to provide guidance to hardware > companies on how to best comply with these rules. If you're interested > in getting involved or just would like to know more, please get in > touch with me. We want to make sure that routers and related embedded > Linux hardware is hackable and we could use all the help we could get. > > Thanks and I look forward to working with you, > > Eric Eric, Obviously, I would be interested in hearing more. I suspect there are others on the list that will be interested as well... John -- John W. Linville Someday the world will need a hero, and you linville@xxxxxxxxxxxxx might be all we have. Be ready. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
