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MadWifi developers move to ath5k

Posted Sep 22, 2007 8:16 UTC (Sat) by drag (subscriber, #31333)
In reply to: MadWifi developers move to ath5k by alan_carr
Parent article: MadWifi developers move to ath5k

Anybody can make any radio break regulatory compliance. It's not difficult. Give a guy some tin foil and a soldering gun and I expect that they can find a way to f-k up somebody else's signal even if the drivers for a radio are closed source and use every anti-debugging, anti-reverse engineering trick in the book.

The trouble is that the FCC is given any authority in the first place.

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Posted Sep 27, 2007 9:18 UTC (Thu) by jamesh (subscriber, #1159) [Link]

Well, for a limited resource like radio spectrum it makes sense to have some controls on its use or people would just go ahead and jam other people's signals.

That said, it would be better if they handled compliance by going after offenders rather than trying to make sure all devices are incapable of transmitting non-compliant signals.

For a start, it makes those devices useless to people who have paid to use non-public spectrum.

MadWifi developers move to ath5k

Posted Sep 27, 2007 11:06 UTC (Thu) by Los__D (subscriber, #15263) [Link]

Wouldn't it make more sense to regulate it by simple LAW?

It's not like everyone stabs each other, even though kitchen knifes doesn't have a "no human flesh" regulatory daemon.