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Comment by Ayesh

1 month ago

https://www.riskinsight-wavestone.com/en/2025/07/radio-equip...

This page (cited by the article at the bottom) has a lot more context and somewhat detailed technical. Information.

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Svip  1 month ago

Under the section "Software authenticity" does it mention that the secure boot requirement appears to come from article 3, §3 (i).

Quoting article 3, §3 (i):

> radio equipment supports certain features in order to ensure that software can only be loaded into the radio equipment where the compliance of the combination of the radio equipment and software has been demonstrated.

The opening of §3 is:

> Radio equipment within certain categories or classes shall be so constructed that it complies with the following essential requirements:

Source: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/dir/2014/53/oj/eng

  • diggan  1 month ago

    Still won't lead to a forced disabling of unlocked bootloaders, or making that illegal, mostly because the directive doesn't outright forbid that. But also because of this section:

    > (19) Verification by radio equipment of the compliance of its combination with software should not be abused in order to prevent its use with software provided by independent parties.

    Put together with the EU’s broader right-to-repair, if any phone manufacturer disables unlocking the bootloader, they're doing so for other reasons, not because RED rules forces them to.