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My blog entry about Swisscom backdooring their routers has been
extremely popular<br>
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If it goes on in Switzerland then it can be happening anywhere<br>
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On 16/01/14 14:55, Max Mehl wrote:<br>
<blockquote type="cite">Hi there,<br>
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maybe you followed the Compulsory Routers topic in Germany during
the last<br>
months [1] and even read my blog entry about the entanglements
between<br>
Compulsory Routers and the latest NSA leaks [2].<br>
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tl;dr:<br>
Compulsory Routers are routers provided by Internet Service
Providers which<br>
cannot be replaced because of technical or legal barriers. This
causes on the<br>
one hand many problems with competition, technical innovation, and<br>
compatibility, but on the other hand also great security risks for
everyone of<br>
us: If we and many others are forced to use one router model, ISPs
create<br>
monocultures which can be attacked more easily by miscreants and
special tools<br>
by intelligence agencies.<br>
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I know the situation in Germany pretty well because I worked on
this issue.<br>
But gaining some knowledge of the ISPs' regulations in other
countries is<br>
harder than I thought in the first place.<br>
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Could you please give me some insights if there are ISPs in your
country with<br>
Compulsory Router policies? Or maybe you want to share your
thoughts about<br>
this topic at all and the implications for Free Software users.<br>
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I'm looking forward to reading your replies!<br>
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Best,<br>
Max<br>
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[1]
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://blogs.fsfe.org/mk/status-of-compulsory-routers-in-germany/">https://blogs.fsfe.org/mk/status-of-compulsory-routers-in-germany/</a><br>
[2]<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://blog.max-mehl.com/2014/why-free-choice-of-routers-is-an-unnegotiable-must/">http://blog.max-mehl.com/2014/why-free-choice-of-routers-is-an-unnegotiable-must/</a><br>
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