Re:Is the FSF Fighting the Previous War?
by charcircuit on Saturday October 08, 2022 @03:30AM
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And this is where the FSF makes the weird trade off that they prefer to not have security updates as that's more "free" than being able to get security updates from the manufacturer. Either way you can't update it, but at least in the scenario the FSF opposes the users are able to be more secure.
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Re:Is the FSF Fighting the Previous War?
by bheadmaster on Saturday October 08, 2022 @03:57AM
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True. FSF doesn't support taking the freedom away from users in the name of security.
> at least in the scenario the FSF opposes the users are able to be more secure
That's quite questionable. What if someone steals the manufacturer keys? Then people with unmodifyable devices would be more secure.
But anyway that's besides the point since FSF is against taking the freedom away from the users under the veil of "security" anyway.
this has nothing to do with security updates. any vendor is free to ship security updates however vendors often decide to refuse updates to "tainted" devices.
Re:Is the FSF Fighting the Previous War?
by josephcsible on Sunday October 09, 2022 @08:28PM
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That's not what the FSF meant the exception to be used for. That's basically the manufacturers abusing a loophole.