Compulsory Routers in your country

[Florian Weimer]

* Carsten Agger:

> If you can change your router (ideally to one running only free
> software, using protocols specified by the ISP), you can protect
> yourself in the case where you trust your ISP, but not the router it
> supplies you.

The flip side is that if you can change your router, you may also be
able to see which web sites your neighbor accesses.  Shared media
networks (mobile, broadband cable, and cheaply implemented DSL and
metro Ethernet) tend to require regulated and deliberately crippled
end devices to prevent that.