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Man, getting software updates installed in a timely manner is already a problem for large parts of industry and government/administration. No need to make it e
by perlgeek 6y ago
Man, getting software updates installed in a timely manner is already a problem for large parts of industry and government/administration.
No need to make it even harder by requiring a hardware update at the same time.
Don't even get me started about the incentives for the vendor: way easier to sweep a security bug under the rug than roll out an update that requires a new processor to be manufactured and rolled out.
Or about the economical and ecological impact. What do you do with the old processors? Just throw them out because they were optimized for an old, insecure version of the application?
- WrtCdEvrydy 6y ago> What do you do with the old processors? Just throw them out because they were optimized for an old, insecure version of the application? We do the same shit with tablets and phones and noone bats an eye... instead of updating an existing phone and just charging for an update, we'd rather release a new $1000 phone every year and just 'recycle' the previous one.