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Making vendors liable has the problem when they spin up a new incorporated entity every year. The company who made it is now bust! Who is liable?
by rmc 10y ago
Making vendors liable has the problem when they spin up a new incorporated entity every year. The company who made it is now bust! Who is liable?
- chopin 10y agoThe owner. If you can't patch it, put it off the grid. If owners become liable they will care whether companies will be able to provide fixes in the future. A somewhat radical solution: if an IoT device has vulnerabilities you go free in bricking it (=making the device non-functional, nothing else). This will put strong incentives on secure devices.