Comment by general1465
7 months ago
Rollback is getting extinct for security reasons. When you will screw up, you need to do a new release. Hopefully screwed part is still talking.
7 months ago
Rollback is getting extinct for security reasons. When you will screw up, you need to do a new release. Hopefully screwed part is still talking.
This is why OTA updates should simply be illegal/considered negligent engineering. If you want a convenient update, let people plug their phones or computers in via a USB port or something, or take it to a mechanic to do so. There shouldn't be security concerns with an appliance because it shouldn't be writable outside of an owner-intended maintenance mode, which should be impossible to activate wirelessly.
Wait until when fridge or TV will come with its own 5G chip and they will get bricked by remote update because it is time to buy a new one and there will be nothing you can do about it.
They don't have to do this. The cheap materials in the compressor or cheap capacitors used on the power supply board will just silently fall. And the cost to repair the problem, for the average person, will be slightly less than just buying a newer version of the crap that just broke.
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I've got various IP subranges categorized by probability of having to block them in the router's firewall.
Main idea was locking updates to once or twice a year and resort to HomeAssistant.
It's at 33% execution stage so no idea on the feasibility.
> Rollback is getting extinct for security reasons.
Unusable devices are technically the most secure ones.