I went to an EFF event where there was a guy from Sling Media (Slingbox, remember them?) who said the one point that overrides all others in importance, which h

I went to an EFF event where there was a guy from Sling Media (Slingbox, remember them?) who said the one point that overrides all others in importance, which he learned from EFF, is that updates should never be force pushed. Designing a device to accept force pushed updates opens non-addressable security holes by giving a mechanism that will allow political players, acquiring companies, or pretty much anyone with an angle, to use the legal system to exert any control and conduct any abuse they can get away with.