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I think you are underestimating how a well known „secure“ label (or lack thereof) could influence customer behavior. It’s not that they don’t care - they (under

• doctorpangloss 3y ago
  > „If sticker X is not on the package I will get hacked“ is much easier to grasp. Hmm. In the grocery store, where this idea comes from and has the most persuasive history in govt. regulation, where manufacturers own the front of the package and regulators own the back, what is the healthiest food? The produce and meat. Which has no nutritional label. There's no such thing as a secure IoT device. There's absolutely no such thing as a secure connected device that is also cheap. If you build your computer from commodity parts, it tends to be the longest lasting and most secure. It is usually the most expensive. Anyway, what would the label for a PlayStation 5 and an iPhone 15 look like? Miles long. Then, for the consumer buying the cheapest smart plugs off Amazon? Like one paragraph the vendor copied and pasted from the Internet, along with all the other legal shit they deal with. Whom should be regulated? I guess Amazon and Walmart, the retailers, they are the real gatekeepers. That's what the EU does! Which doesn't fly here. The Waltons live here, not in the EU.