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>something that's vitally important Why would that be vitally important? They are a business selling lifestyle and technology. For them vitally important is st
by npteljes 5y ago
>something that's vitally important
Why would that be vitally important? They are a business selling lifestyle and technology. For them vitally important is staying in a profitable business. I think we can agree that we're past the point where we can believe that these vulnerabilities threaten that. These vulns mean to them, I think, only risk. Mitigation will come in a form of some patches, and some PR. And the world will go on, continuing to circulate these phones.
- SheinhardtWigCo 5y agoFair question, it's a shame you're being downvoted for it. I do agree that there is no apparent profit motive to do much more than lip service and short-term damage control, although Pegasus might start to change that, we'll see. It's important in the same way that phasing out ICE cars is important -- important for society, but unlikely to happen in a timely manner without regulation. Here's a fun strawman: the EU or California could announce limits on the sale of products relative to the number of lines of memory-unsafe code used to build them, starting in a few years.
- npteljes 5y agoI agree. That'd be fun! They could introduce a limit and if the product doesn't pass the limit, is outdated or anything, then it gets an ugly Unsafe sticker on the product box. Stickers could be mandated regarding the cloud usage of the device too: This one phones home to China, this one to Russia, this one to the USA. Let the people know.