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Is it also dangerous to use your TV, router or any other electronic device that hasn't received a single update since it left the factory? Should the sale of th
by bitmapbrother 9y ago
Is it also dangerous to use your TV, router or any other electronic device that hasn't received a single update since it left the factory? Should the sale of those devices also be illegal? How many updates has the software and firmware in your car received? Shouldn't it be illegal to be on the road in a car with obsolete software? Yet, according to you it's pathetic and should be illegal to use a smartphone that's only received 2 years of OS updates and 3 years of security updates.
>You buy a piece of hardware that could trivially keep working for 5-8 years, and it becomes actively dangerous to use
Dangerous to use? In case you weren't aware, the majority of the damage inflicted on consumers and businesses is perpetrated by IOT botnets and infected Windows computers.