Comment by ClumsyPilot
4 years ago
"pretending we can have 512 billion bits of perfect memory sitting around that will never go wrong, because Intel fuse it off on desktop chips"
I think computers are now so important to our life, we need to start regulating them like we do cars.
Start seriously slapping companies that deliberately or negligently release equipment with obsolete kernels and security holes, mandate ECC like we mandate ABS, mandate part avaliability for 10 years like we do with cars, etc.
Every day we let this this slide, thousands of people loose precious data and number of 'smart' toasters mining crypto increases.
My main worry with this sort of thing, is that if we start mandating legal liability, and security becomes a compliance line-item, then companies are going to start locking down everything they ship so they have a legal defense in court. The argument's going to be, "if we are liable for shipping insecure desktops then you shouldn't be allowed to install Linux onto them and then sue us when you get hacked".
Think about how many laptops ship with Wi-Fi whitelists with the excuse of "FCC certification". It doesn't matter that the FCC doesn't actually prohibit users from swapping out Wi-Fi cards; manufacturers will do it anyway.
Just add a physical seal on the product like other dumb electronics do.