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EU situation should be looked at by everyone

EU situation should be looked at by everyone

Posted Dec 12, 2023 11:32 UTC (Tue) by bluca (subscriber, #118303)
In reply to: EU situation should be looked at by everyone by coriordan
Parent article: Bottomley: Solving the Looming Developer Liability Problem

These laws are very good, and about time somebody stepped up to fix the absolute mess that is the consumer electronic device market. It is unbelievable that it took 20 years before we could get to the point where shoving a smartphone on the other side of the wall on the market and then refusing to provide security updates for a sensible amount of time was not allowed anymore. There are literally millions of devices being sold with known security vulnerability that put users and their data at risk, with no plan whatsoever by the manufacturers to fix them. This is unconscionable, and has to stop.

Evidently, the "invisible hand of the market" is unable to fix this, it had two decades to do so and it spent them scratching its invisible rear end instead, so time for the adults to step in and fix this mess.


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