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I’ve made a similar suggestion on HN before. Have a minimum support period for internet connected devices, and once you stop updating after that minimum, you’re

• Nemo_bis 3y ago
  That can't work, because the suppliers will be bankrupt already. However one could something like Portico, which keeps journals in archive and releases them to the public if the original goes down. Manufacturers could be forced to deposit all the source code for the software they release on their product, and the deposited source code be released to the public after X years if there is no support for security updates any more. The difference being, if they don't comply the EU can withdraw the products from the market _before_ they're sold.
  • dns_snek 3y ago
    That would be great in theory, but who would actually review and enforce that? Without really strict rules in place this would be doomed to fail. You would need to have a huge number of people whose job it would be to review every single software/firmware submission. Would you mandate that companies must deliver code and build scripts that can be built with a single command and produce usable software/firmware? Otherwise companies would probably submit random archives of plausible looking code that will never be usable because it depends on 100+ proprietary components.