[OpenWrt-Devel] New Ubiquiti AC products locked against 3rd party firmware?

[valent.turkovic at gmail.com]

Nice that you checked... I would understand this stance from a company
that doesn't rely on so much open source software without which they
wouldn't even exists. Shame, just shame.

On 30 November 2015 at 09:48, John Crispin <blogic at openwrt.org> wrote:
>
>
> On 30/11/2015 09:38, Petr Štetiar wrote:
>> Ben West <ben at gowasabi.net> [2015-11-27 10:00:51]:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>>> This person is reporting a new Ubiquiti AC AP where there the bootloader
>>> does an RSA signature check on the firmware image.
>>
>> let's hope, that it would be possible to replace/patch that unfriendly U-Boot.
>>
>>> Could anyone else confirm if they've observed the same, and if it now
>>> prevents loading OpenWRT, etc?  Or at least, confirm if the RSA signature
>>> checking by the bootloader was not present before?
>>
>> We're using UBNT products and I can confirm, that there wasn't any RSA
>> firmware signature checking previously and we're able to run OpenWRT on them.
>> Maybe it's time to look around for alternatives...
>>
>> -- ynezz
>>
>
>
> Hi,
>
> i contacted UBNT customer support. they specifically stated that they do
> not want users to install openwrt and prefer not to cooperate with us.
> it is a concious decision to *not* support the free software movement
> and be capitalist pigs. the reasoning given to me was not related to FCC
> ruling but specifically stated that they dont like users installing free
> software on their routers. they prefer to have submissive users that
> will do as they are told.
>
>         John
>
>
>>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>>> From: Andrew Margarit | Cucumber WiFI <andrew at polkaspots.com>
>>> Date: Fri, Nov 27, 2015 at 7:59 AM
>>> Subject: Re: [FCC] New AP with the lockdown
>>> To: fcc at lists.prplfoundation.org
>>>
>>> Hi there,
>>>
>>> Just to let you know, I've been looking at the Ubiquiti new AC APs, and it
>>> looks like they added a RSA check in the bootloader.
>>>
>>> Firmware Version: BZ.qca956x.v3.4.7.3284.150911.1650
>>> RSA Signed Firmware. Verfiying please wait...
>>> Decrypted hash: f8 2b 45 72 9f e4 5f 46 a0 96 43 37 57 4f 49 ab 43 dc 1e 8c
>>> Image hash    : f8 2b 45 72 9f e4 5f 46 a0 96 43 37 57 4f 49 ab 43 dc 1e 8c
>>>
>>> All fun and good!
>>>
>>> --
>>> Andrew Margarit
>>>
>>> Wi-FI Chief | Cucumber Tony
>>> Andrew at polkaspots.com
>>> cucumberwifi.io
>>>
>>> twitter/cucumbertony
>>> _______________________________________________
>>> FCC mailing list
>>> FCC at lists.prplfoundation.org
>>> http://lists.prplfoundation.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fcc
>>>
>>> --
>>> Ben West
>>> http://gowasabi.net
>>> ben at gowasabi.net
>>> 314-246-9434
>>> _______________________________________________
>>> openwrt-devel mailing list
>>> openwrt-devel at lists.openwrt.org
>>> https://lists.openwrt.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-devel
>> _______________________________________________
>> openwrt-devel mailing list
>> openwrt-devel at lists.openwrt.org
>> https://lists.openwrt.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-devel
>>
> _______________________________________________
> openwrt-devel mailing list
> openwrt-devel at lists.openwrt.org
> https://lists.openwrt.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-devel
_______________________________________________
openwrt-devel mailing list
openwrt-devel at lists.openwrt.org
https://lists.openwrt.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-devel