http://slashdot.org/submission/5574003/tp-link-confirms-wifi-freedom-is-dead...

any chance people could click "+" on the "submission" button on this? the FCC's screwed up - ignored comments from a bunch of experts - and gone ahead "oh nooo nooo problemmm, nooobody will just lock down the entire embedded OS" and of course that's exactly what TP-Link has done, because it's the easiest thing to do.

this applies to embedded boards just as much. it's now a legal requirement to DRM-lock the *entire OS* - kernel, bootloader, OS - *everything* - on embedded boards that happen to have WIFI modules on them.

l.

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