Re:I've Seen the Future, and It Has a Kill Switch
by natch on Friday June 27, 2008 @02:21AM
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Forget about wild terrorist threats.
The important thing is that self updating features are a bad idea for any product, hardware or software, that might someday be the target of litigation.
I met the Slingbox founders at an EFF event once, and one of them told me that they deliberately left a self-updating capability out of the Slingbox, on the advice of an EFF lawyer.
The important thing is that self updating features are a bad idea for any product, hardware or software, that might someday be the target of litigation.
I met the Slingbox founders at an EFF event once, and one of them told me that they deliberately left a self-updating capability out of the Slingbox, on the advice of an EFF lawyer.