Josselin Mouette wrote: [...] > Or so you think. There are people who can read assembly and hex just as > easily as I read C sources. It would probably take only a few days of > testing for a hacker with the appropriate skills to remove firmware > restrictions for reaching a frequency range, for example.
I believe that most if not all firmware images these days are signed or encrypted. [...] > In such cases, there needs to be > some appropriate process to validate the new versions and to enforce it > legally. Yup. Unlike most software, wireless stuff is rather indiscriminate about what it interacts with. Wired ethernet is easy to control, wireless is much less so; your right to experiment with wireless protocols does not extend to preventing me making emergency calls. The EM spectrum is very subject to tragedy-of-the-commons abuses. It's in everybody's interest to ensure that people follow the rules when using the EM spectrum, which is why regulators like the FCC have the powers they do. [...] > This is what those keeping their sources closed wish. But there are no > fairies to grant this wish. Actually, I strongly suspect this is because most firmware images contain proprietary embedded operating systems and/or proprietary third-party libraries... -- David Given [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
