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Comment by charcircuit

10 hours ago

It provides a good incentive for manufacturers to invest into security for their devices.

No, it provides no incentive at all!

It's the users who suffer when this happens, not the manufacturers. The manufacturers couldn't care less, the money is already in the bank.

If the manufacturers were required to replace all the revoked devices at their cost, that would be a real incentive.

  • Manufactures suffer reputational damage from it. Also keys could be revoked before they finish selling through all of their stock of produced phones.