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What is the purpose of locking the firmware? What threat is the FCC protecting against?

(And why is the article headline "Europe" when the cited article in the news story says TP is locking their stuff down due to an FCC ruling? The linked news story is a word-salad).

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Might be a chance that someone could go next to an airport and jam all of the frequencies. It's not very likely scenario and this wouldn't even prevent them from doing that. But that's I could think of.

The headline has Europe in it because they are now making similar rules as those that FCC made.

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