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So the government can now ask you to do specialised software development to retardify your own systems and if you refuse then they can fine you? I didn’t think
by aetherspawn 8y ago
So the government can now ask you to do specialised software development to retardify your own systems and if you refuse then they can fine you?
I didn’t think there was any basis whatsoever to be able to make a law that assumes a company is capable of maintaining or modifying their systems or infrastructure. That seems too generalised.. what if they’re running on a system that they don’t have the source code for?
- NoPicklez 8y agoThat's exactly one of the things they can do yes. One of the stupid things about it is that they say that what they ask you to do cannot create a systematic weakness. Which is exactly what they're asking you to do, create a weakness that is only for them.
- caf 8y agoPretty much. Maybe they'll just ask you to sign a binary they've built themselves. They obviously won't be able to ask you to do something you technically can't. If you sell, say, IoT devices that don't phone home for updates then you'll probably be safe.
- brokenmachine 8y ago>If you sell, say, IoT devices that don't phone home for updates then you'll probably be safe. They can demand source code to find vulnerabilities in those IoT devices however.