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Don't be too shocked, but it looks as though these politicians have actually got their act together on IoT security

Mike 16

Updates

At the risk of becoming yet another broken record (in the vinyl sense of the word, not the Guinness sense), there are at least two issues around updates:

1) Devices need to be _capable_ of updating their software (and of reverting to a "not great but not totally borked" state).

2) Making updates mandatory, non-reversible, and silent? That's how a zero-day at the manufacturer becomes a worldwide shit-storm.

(And that's not even addressing which criminal gang/government agency is using that zero-day.)

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