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- From: keating@rtsg.mot.com (Edward Keating)
- Subject: Re: Hacking USR ROMS [4.2 - 4.1]
- Message-ID: <keating.721081413@galena13>
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- Organization: Motorola Inc., Cellular Infrastructure Group
- References: <Bwqv58.GK5@xcluud.sccsi.com> <BwrDIG.8pD@ibmpcug.co.uk> <Bww1LC.GMr@xcluud.sccsi.com> <1992Nov4.000843.15061@riogrande.cs.tcu.edu>
- Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 20:23:33 GMT
- Lines: 35
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- panizo@riogrande.cs.tcu.edu (Maria Panizo) writes:
-
- >In article <Bww1LC.GMr@xcluud.sccsi.com> dkl@xcluud.sccsi.com (David Leikam) writes:
- >> Consider the automobile analogy. If someone wants to manufacture and sell
- >>cars in this country, then those cars MUST meet certain pollution-control
- >>standards, usually accomplished with various add-on devices.
- >>
- >> Those devices can be physically removed/bypassed by the user. Now, that
- >>might not be LEGAL, but if it isn't, that matter is between the user and
- >>the state. It certainly doesn't affect the manufacturer's status as having
- >>sold a car complying with the existing regulations.
- >>
- >> In a similar vein, if I build a device, or modify an existing device, such
- >>that it no longer meets FCC/RBOC standards, it's MY affair, not that of the
- >>manufacturer, or of the Radio Shack/wherever that sold me the parts, or of
- >>Intel or whoever made the IC's that I used to do it.
- >>
- >>
-
- >If the car you bought had a switch on the dashboard that wasn't marked, but
- >when you turned it on, the pollution-control devices were disabled, I believe
- >it WOULD be something that the authorities would be interested in.
-
- >MP
-
- It isn't like that, its more like: You have a 1990 Chevy and you put a 1989
- engine into it. After all the car(modem) was originally equipped with that
- particular option in a prior year. As long as you still don't pollute the
- environment, you don't have a problem. If you change the eprom chip in your
- modem it is either going to work fine or not at all. There just isn't too many
- ways a modem can go half way and still work. If you could disturb the network
- in some way that would cause harm,( too hot a transmit level or out of band
- signalling) then the modem isn't going to work well if at all.
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