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This stuff needs to be outlawed. If you want a backdoor for mainteneance, install some hardware serial console.
by revelation 15y ago
This stuff needs to be outlawed. If you want a backdoor for mainteneance, install some hardware serial console.
- sneak 15y agoAny time you think to yourself, "There ought to be a law!" Just don't.
- andrewflnr 15y agoIf you think about it, every law is a threat of violence. If you're not prepared to use violence, or at least force to some degree, to enforce it, you merely have a strong suggestion. Even if you just start off with handcuffs, if they escalate, you have to escalate, or let them go. I think this is a useful heuristic for deciding whether something should be legislated: "is this worth using violence over?"
- borism 15y agoviolence means very little in the context of corporations, since they're not people.
- swifterdarrell 15y agoDo you know why corporations do what courts say (pay damages, clean up oil spills, etc.)? Because inside their scaly, corporate armor, they're made of squishy people.
- brown9-2 15y agoAnd when countries like China make it a law mandating the existence of such backdoors in devices sold/manufactured in their country?