Dan Gillmor: Tech Companies, Carriers Should Be Required to Issue Updates to Fix Security Flaws
http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2015/07/30/tech_companies_and_carriers_should_be_required_to_issue_software_updates.html We need a law, with teeth. Sellers of phones and many other connected consumer devices should be required to provide timely security updates for a minimum of three years after a device goes on the market. Regulation should be done with the lightest possible touch, and it should steer clear of interfering with the technology itself. Enforcing such a law would not be simple, to put it mildly. But the current situation has to change. - - - An interesting concept. Not at all clear to me how this could work in practice, however. Somehow I suspect in the end only lawyers would benefit. --Lauren-- Lauren Weinstein ([email protected]): http://www.vortex.com/lauren Founder: - Network Neutrality Squad: http://www.nnsquad.org - PRIVACY Forum: http://www.vortex.com/privacy-info Co-Founder: People For Internet Responsibility: http://www.pfir.org/pfir-info Member: ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy Lauren's Blog: http://lauren.vortex.com Google+: http://google.com/+LaurenWeinstein Twitter: http://twitter.com/laurenweinstein Tel: +1 (818) 225-2800 / Skype: vortex.com _______________________________________________ pfir mailing list http://lists.pfir.org/mailman/listinfo/pfir
