[GTALUG] Sidebar to OpenWrt vs TP-Link Archer C7 v2

[David Collier-Brown]

On 19/02/16 04:03 PM, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> Yeah the FCC's "That's not what we meant with our directive" is appearing
> to turn into exactly what people thought it would given I don't think
> the manufacturers see any other obvious way to obey the directive.
>
Alas, the cheap approach makes the vendor responsible for fixing any 
compliance-critical bugs, and by their adopting the proposed rulemaking 
before it was passed, they voluntarily prohibited the persons who are 
legally responsible, the owners, from fixing their own equipment.

IMHO, the first compliance-critical bug they don't fix with a recall 
renders the devices they sell "not suitable for the purpose sold" (under 
the Statute of Frauds, which I taught to my fellow militiamen, once in 
my ill-spent youth).

This week, the routers that don't actively avoid using glibc have just 
such a bug, and, IMHO, are looking forward to a nice expensive 
class-action suit courtesy of Our American Cousins (;-))

--dave

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