Compulsory Routers in your country

[Daniel Pocock]

My blog entry about Swisscom backdooring their routers has been
extremely popular

If it goes on in Switzerland then it can be happening anywhere

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