<xmn>
Sorry, don't have more. I thought I read an article about how EU or Germany is or considering a law that would ban people from modding or open sourcing the software/hardware for phones or was that just routers?
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<Joerg-Neo900>
xmn: the modem radio stack firmware needs certification which includes proved assertion that IMEI is imutable. So the baseband firmware must not be modifiable by user which usually is achieved by checksumming and check of crypto-signature of the complete image. Often even every time on power-on, for sure anyway on flashing a new image
<Joerg-Neo900>
"routers" is a very faintly related topic.
<Joerg-Neo900>
a relatively recent EU regulation forbids messing around with firmware for WLAN radio stack - much similar and for same reasons as WWAN/celmo.
<xmn>
maybe that was it which will ruin the wrt type software dev in the eu at least
<Joerg-Neo900>
however many of the WLAN chipsets are not equipped for support of a similar scheme of crypto-signing the firmware image. So manufs may do - and some even have done - lock down and sign etc the *complete* router OS
<Joerg-Neo900>
yes, this is exactly the concern with the latter - it will kill all WRT-alike FOSS development
<Joerg-Neo900>
did this answer your question?
<Joerg-Neo900>
for an example of the consequences, refer to AVM Fritzbox which got "tivoized" since IIRC OS release v.6 - around a 2 years ago now
<xmn>
Yeah, thank man!
<Joerg-Neo900>
yw :-)
<Joerg-Neo900>
Fritzbox luckily is "unbrickable" in a sense that you can recover from completely messed-up firmware, by flashing a recovery-image that's supposed to *always* succeed. So you can downgrade to FritzOS v.5 which is not yet tivoized, then from there on install your Freetz or whatever you prefer firmware image
<Joerg-Neo900>
no idea if this applies to the more recent Fritzbox hw platforms, though
<Joerg-Neo900>
basically Fritzbox went from my "recommended 'open' hardware" list to the "steer clear! you got to fight the manufacturer's lockdown-measures about who owns the device" pne