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Jooki – Taking Control of a Forgotten Device
- userbinator 2y agoThis design appears to be intended for over-the-air (OTA) updates but, if exploited by a malicious actor, could enable remote code execution (RCE). RCE is what every automatic update functionality essentially is.
- JimDabell 2y ago> But that dream turned into frustration when the company behind Jooki went bankrupt, leaving countless devices bricked and families frustrated. It’s situations like this that make me believe that software should only qualify for copyright protection if its source code is published. We do this with patents precisely so that inventions don’t disappear when their creators do. Why don’t we do this with software too?
- spoaceman7777 2y agoUnfortunately, there are certain major manufacturing countries which don't respect copyright law, and constantly poach everything from startups to kickstarters. :/
- JimDabell 2y agoDo they respect patents any more than copyright?
- sweeter 2y agoI think copyright is counterproductive and destroys innovation more than copycats. Companies will evergreen patents eternally and then sit on it forever and either die out or become litigious trying to protect their patent. Just look at Disney with Mickey mouse, Amazon bought up the best text to speech system known to man and they literally don't use it at all, or look at the medical industry... They spend billions on slightly tweaking delivery methods to keep patents alive for decades. It's grotesque. Or the nemesis system in gaming. Those countries are not going to abide anyways (and I honestly don't care because this system is so messed up anyways, 5 years should be more than enough time to make your money) but instead we get rot.
- robertlagrant 2y agoA couple of possibilities: - copyright isn't patents, and copyright doesn't work this way for other works - why would this help? Companies could just not copyright the server code, and not release it