• wholookshere@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    4 days ago

    The risk of taking down large portions of the internet has the same risks as a vacuum? Interesting.

    Your right not every device has parts availability. But again, why not? Because it it’ll cost more?

    Your willing to risk tanking the digital economy for what has historically been huge sums of money, because we don’t hold vacuum cleaners to higher standards?

    I’m being obtuse, but you keep pointing to “well we don’t fix that problem over there, so we shouldn’t do it over here”. It doesn’t sway me. We should absolutely fix repability of ALL ELECRONTICS AND CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE

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      4 days ago

      But even the car thing is not the responsibility of the manufacturer to fix. It’s the owner’s responsibility and only of they actually are using it.

      If companies have to update all products to keep up with modern safety standards, it would mean no new products would ever be made and the products would be exceptionally expensive since you’d only buy them once. That’s not the type of economic system we live in.

      And no, a router that is defective is not going to tank the digital economy just because the manufacturer doesn’t fix it. Definitely not a d-link product. That’s why enterprise grade commercial products are so much more expensive. They are designed for longer life. If that’s what you want, then buy a commercial product and pay the company a subscription fee for support or warrantee in cases like this.

      • wholookshere@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        4 days ago

        Except devices, specifically quoting routers, Do make up bot nets

        That’s the specfici malware used on unsecured IoT devices and routers.

        I was able to find tons of scholarly articles Like this one

        That specifically talk about how many of these devices get comprised.

        This isn’t some theoretical attack vector. This is active now.