>Various community members have been warning for some time that we'll face regulation sooner or later; all that needs to happen is a sufficiently large disaster

>Various community members have been warning for some time that we'll face regulation sooner or later; all that needs to happen is a sufficiently large disaster. I'm reading that line as if it is a bad thing. I don't see why and couldn't disagree more. Software failures should be handled just the same as in hardware or harsher as you can much easier and faster update software. Bad enough bugs should be handled like they are in hardware, IE. cars that are pulled of the marked if they pollute too much, planes that are grounded, etc. Throwing your hands in the air saying "we don't support version X" shouldn't be an excuse. If a car have a 3 year warranty and they start going full throttle killing people or you can exploit a jeep to disable its brakes the manufactures should be just as liable as if it happened on day one or year 10 and with no difference if the error is hard or software. If IoT and router device manufactures should pay the damages their unpatched devices cause, they would be fixed, unlike now where even my consumer-grade managed Cisco switch had had exactly zero firmware patches since I bought it.