@mjg59 This isn't a reason to oppose the freedom to modify, but one incentive that arises once you're able to replace it with new nonfree firmware is pressure to do so (e.g. software only works with the replacement now). This means you now have whatever malicious behaviors were in the original firmware plus whatever somebody decided to add once the hardware was in strategic positions. Even if I had this freedom I almost surely wouldn't use it. It feels like going from bad to worse.