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There are regulations about what frequencies and at what power different devices may broadcast. Currently, those implementations (and hence regulations) are done/enforced in some combination of hardware and software, but mostly hardware. Implementation is moving to software, so updating the OS allows the user to override those regulations. The FTC is not thrilled about this.

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Yeah, I understood that, I was just confused as to why he or she mentioned firmware along with software because I thought firmware can't be modified by users like software can. I was wrong in thinking that though.