Unfortunately, forced firmware updating is an area our governments should not be mandating. That puts unnecessary strain on small companies and creates a larger gap that companies must cross to become commercially viable
> Unfortunately, forced firmware updating is an area our governments should not be mandating. It absolutely is an area that governments should be mandating, because the problem is an externality. These attacks are a cost imposed on neither the producer nor the consumer of the device itself, and (apart from some highly speculative libertarian conjectures) the only things that can fix externalities are taxes, regulatio…
The consumer takes on some of the cost. But the only reason you are so for this legislation is because you don't understand the full-scale logistics involved in mandating such a feat as well implementing them as a tech company. If you want to mandate security to include well-established, cost-appropriate solutions, that's cool, but requiring future updates to these IoT devices is not the correct solution. It brings into question free speech issues for one, requiring companies to support the life of products they no longer wish to support. And the only companies who will not feel the full brunt of this would be the elite.