Subj : Blocking Routers from installing Open Source
To   : Markus Reschke
From : Alexey Vissarionov
Date : Sat Mar 19 2016 15:52:52

Good ${greeting_time}, Markus!

19 Mar 2016 12:46:26, you wrote to Joe Delahaye:

 JD>> But that announcement makes it harder.  Like it says in the article,
 JD>> it is easier to block installation of alternative firmware, then it
 JD>> is to make sure that the transmitter power cannot be altered via
 JD>> that software.
 MR> The newer TP-Link routers all got a tftp client which tries to
 MR> download a firmware file from a specific IP address at startup ;)

Bwahaha... I bet they don't use digital signatures :-)


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