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Split the difference. Automatically update devices until they are end-of-lifed, then send a last update that blows a fuse allowing automatic updates. Anything a
by bscphil 5y ago
Split the difference. Automatically update devices until they are end-of-lifed, then send a last update that blows a fuse allowing automatic updates. Anything after that point requires a write switch to be flipped.
Actually, preferentially they should be taken offline and the consumer should have to opt-in to leaving them connected to the Internet, but that's a whole separate issue.
- crazygringo 5y agoI don't know, that doesn't seem like splitting the difference -- it seems like it might be the worst of both worlds. Before EOL auto-update is a vulnerability, and after EOL security patches might still be made available for the absolute worst vulnerabilities, but now wouldn't get to practically anyone.