The Internet of criminal things

Posted Sep 24, 2015 21:12 UTC (Thu) by marcH (subscriber, #57642)
In reply to: The Internet of criminal things by raven667
Parent article: The Internet of criminal things

> All you really need is local physical presence and maybe tamper evidence (so it's easy to see if the owner or the manufacturer is responsible if the software messes up), which are actually easier problems to solve than authorizing remote updates over the network.

Well said. Call this a "fuse", make a nice sentence around it with "voided warranty" in it, and that's it: you've made the whole issue simple enough for anyone to fully understand. Even lawmakers.