| Joerg-Neo900 | https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/2019/03/eu-passes-new-copyright-law-which-will-lead-to-a-more-censored-internet/ | 20:52 |
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| xmn | stupid EU, doesn't understand how the internet works. Will be interesting how this pans out around the world. | 21:05 |
| Joerg-Neo900 | https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/2019/03/germany-considers-amendment-to-law-which-makes-it-illegal-to-run-a-tor-node-or-website/ | 21:13 |
| Joerg-Neo900 | and for a lil nice one: from 2021 on, European DST switching will be gone | 21:14 |
| xmn | yeah heard about that. Sad that everyone privacy is given for a few possible nut jobs. | 21:22 |
| Joerg-Neo900 | I strongly doubt they may nuke Tor. Tor been used (even invented?) by authorities for their agents out there | 21:49 |
| Joerg-Neo900 | so they don't reveal where they are located when reporting home | 21:49 |
| Joerg-Neo900 | no CIA and no BND will allow this getting nuked | 21:50 |
| xmn | perhaps, more likely ban for everyone except gov officials. | 21:57 |
| norly | xmn: but if nobody except gov officials will be using tor, then everybody using tor will clearly be a government official... | 22:08 |
| norly | thus we'll know who the gov officials are... | 22:08 |
| xmn | lol | 22:12 |
| Joerg-Neo900 | and the law is not about using but about running a Tor node | 22:23 |
| xmn | true | 22:25 |
| xmn | But slipper slope | 22:25 |
| xmn | Joerg-Neo900: Didn't you post a link about cellular radio/baseban being made illegal in Germany? | 22:47 |
| xmn | I remeber hearing about some new law, but can't find anything about it. Perhaps I remember wrong. | 22:48 |
| sixwheeledbeast | Seems like Apple is losing the Qualcomm case. It's all going on this week. | 22:50 |
| xmn | yup 30 mil right? | 22:51 |
| xmn | they should if they did. | 22:51 |
| Joerg-Neo900 | xmn: baseband illegal? sorry please elaborate | 22:56 |
| 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? | 22:59 |
| 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 | 23:44 |
| Joerg-Neo900 | "routers" is a very faintly related topic. | 23:45 |
| 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. | 23:46 |
| xmn | maybe that was it which will ruin the wrt type software dev in the eu at least | 23:47 |
| 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 | 23:48 |
| Joerg-Neo900 | yes, this is exactly the concern with the latter - it will kill all WRT-alike FOSS development | 23:49 |
| Joerg-Neo900 | did this answer your question? | 23:49 |
| 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 | 23:52 |
| xmn | Yeah, thank man! | 23:52 |
| Joerg-Neo900 | yw :-) | 23:52 |
| 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 | 23:55 |
| Joerg-Neo900 | no idea if this applies to the more recent Fritzbox hw platforms, though | 23:55 |
| 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 | 23:58 |
| Joerg-Neo900 | one* | 23:59 |
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