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You seem familiar with hardware and software hacking, but not the creativity of bad-faith legal hacking ;-) If you pass that law on Day Zero, I claim that on D
by braythwayt 7y ago
You seem familiar with hardware and software hacking, but not the creativity of bad-faith legal hacking ;-)
If you pass that law on Day Zero, I claim that on Day One, manufacturers provide some horribly arcane command-line interface for rooting lightbulbs and washing machines, and add some boilerplate to their shrink-wrap licenses forcing customers to acknowledge that they have admin privileges on their devices.
Problem solved for them, Granny is liable again according to your system.
- Nextgrid 7y agoDoes the license auto-root the device? If yes, then it's an obviously dishonest circumvention of the law and judges will see right through it. If not, then the manufacturer has to prove the device was rooted if they want to pass liability to someone else. If that still doesn't solve the problem, the media will take care of it. "Buying this smart lightbulb puts you at risk of being sued for thousands of $$$" can't be good for manufacturers and they'd want to avoid the bad press.
- braythwayt 7y agoIt seems simpler and more direct for the media to say, "Selling this insecure IoT-device/phone/router/tv that requires every consumer to become a security expert, and taking no responsibility for OTA patches and so forth, puts you at risk for paying hundreds of millions of dollars in fines and/or damages."