[Battlemesh] Forced firmware lockdown in EU already passed

[demos]

Mitar:
> Hi!
> 
>> This is not that clear cut in EU: enforcement of Article 3 (3) list
>> "essential requirements" is delegated to proposals of which equipment
>> will affected by the EU Commission, and these proposals can be blocked
>> either by the council or the parliament. Also in the preamble (19)
>> states clearly that software verification should not be abused to
>> prevent third party software. See below for quotes.
> 
> But preamble is not a directive, no? And directive does not contain any
> such language.
> 
> Also, how do you see in practice that both Article 3 (3) and preamble
> (19) would be possible? The only way I see it for a manufacturer to do
> that is to accept firmware images signed by a key from EU Commission.
> And then it leaves to EU Commission to decide which 3rd party software
> is still compliant.
> 
> The other options are just to prevent 3rd party firmware images. Or to
> require binary blob drivers for WiFi. None of those we really want. So
> how exactly do you see that the wording in current directive is not
> problematic? How would you in an ideal world implement this in practice
> for WiFi devices? If I understand you correctly, what you are saying is
> that we should hope this applies only to SDRs and not WiFi?
> 
> 
> Mitar
> 
Hello,
i want to cite an idea that somebody i know wrote to me:
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Well, the idea of the RMSBOX that I discussed with RMS was to separate
the (non-updateable) firmware of the WLAN from the main router logic / OS.
Hence the design combination of a general-purpose embedded system plus
(USB|pcie) WLAN stick / card.  The stick/card would have the non-free
firmware, but only manage the WLAN chip with it, while the
general-purpose system would be fully libre. So this is exactly also
addressing the
requirements of the EU directive.
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What do you think?
Maybe now is somebody willing to help with the GNU recommendation?->
https://wiki.c3d2.de/HardwareRecommendation

Cheers
Demos
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