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Security certification doesn't work and can't guarantee products to be free from security holes. What we need is an obligation for the manufacturers to provide
by legulere 12y ago
Security certification doesn't work and can't guarantee products to be free from security holes.
What we need is an obligation for the manufacturers to provide an automatic update mechanism and updates fixing security critical bugs for several years.
- rmc 12y agoSometimes "upgrades" breaks things for users, and they are reluctant to apply them. Users are trained to not apply upgrades. Ideally you'd need law that manufactors not do that.
- digi_owl 12y agoThat is because OEMs lump security fixes in with "value addition". What is required is a multi track maintenance scheme, similar to LTS releases etc.
- higherpurpose 12y agoOh, the updates should definitely be automatic (like Chrome). For one, it would ensure the companies are a lot more careful with what they're sending for update so as to not break millions of devices at once, and second, as you said, it removes the hassle from users having to deal with tens of different devices.