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Re:Schneier: It's Time to Regulate IoT to Improve Cyber-Secu... by wmf on Wednesday November 15, 2017 @05:49PM (#15708715)
demanding opening the source code once security updates for the device stop

They probably don't even have the (usable) source code.

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Re:Schneier: It's Time to Regulate IoT to Improve Cyber-Secu... by mtgx on Wednesday November 15, 2017 @06:05PM (#15708862)
Arm recently announced an open source firmware for IoT devices. Now all it takes is for OEMs to want to replace their proprietary firmware with this (while keeping all bits open source as they extend it).

https://www.arm.com/news/2017/10/a-common-industry-framework

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Re:Schneier: It's Time to Regulate IoT to Improve Cyber-Secu... by zby on Thursday November 16, 2017 @05:58AM (#15711730)
Maybe we should mandate that a reasonable source code is deposited somewhere?
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Re:Schneier: It's Time to Regulate IoT to Improve Cyber-Secu... by wmf on Thursday November 16, 2017 @11:52AM (#15714195)
And you'd only discover that the code doesn't even build until it's too late.
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Re:Schneier: It's Time to Regulate IoT to Improve Cyber-Secu... by confounded on Wednesday November 15, 2017 @08:27PM (#15709613)
Well, they probably would if they had an incentive to do so.
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