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> Companies may cease supporting a device well before consumers have stopped using it In which case all information required to create and load custom firmware
by mrweasel 3y ago
> Companies may cease supporting a device well before consumers have stopped using it
In which case all information required to create and load custom firmware should be released to the public. This information should be placed in escrow, in case the company ceases to exist. The same rule should apply to backend services, in case of a device being depended on such a service to operate.
> security updates for a reasonable amount of time
Which is 25 year or more for some classes of devices. Phone have already reached a point where they should be required to come with 10 years of security updates. I'd expect light switches to get at the very least 20 years of security updates.
Generally I believe that governments are being WAY to lenient towards manufactures of any type of electronics when it comes to updates. It's bad for security, the environment and the causes consumers to make bad investments. The companies making these devices have long since proven that they DO NOT CARE and shouldn't be trusted to deal with the issues themselves.