Comment by kmeisthax

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.