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The operative difference is that intelligent adversaries are not coming up with new and better methods of making your bumper fall off. The economics of providi
by __jal 7y ago
The operative difference is that intelligent adversaries are not coming up with new and better methods of making your bumper fall off.
The economics of providing 5 years of defensive patching on a $100 device simply does not work.
- crankylinuxuser 7y agoThen maybe they shouldn't be able to make a profit on doing society wrong in the medium or long term.
- snuxoll 7y agoMaybe they need to stop shipping a dozen different $100 models with wildly different specifications and come up with a common platform to reduce support costs, like most other industries. Support costs increase as fragmentation does, it things sold at a reasonable price and without dozens of variations it would be more feasible to maintain longer supported life cycles - but these companies have no incentive to think beyond the next quarter’s earnings call.
- aaron_m04 7y ago> The operative difference is that intelligent adversaries are not coming up with new and better methods of making your bumper fall off. Not yet.