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Re:Ask HN: I’m an FCC Commissioner proposing regulation of I... by asynchronous on Tuesday September 05, 2023 @12:26PM (#37394040)
You could regulate they have to patch any outstanding CVEs for their device/firmware but enforceability might be difficult.
Re:Ask HN: I’m an FCC Commissioner proposing regulation of I... by tkfu on Tuesday September 05, 2023 @12:41PM (#37394328)
This would be an absolutely terrible standard. CVEs really, really suck. See, for example, this CVE for curl[1] that was assigned a 9.8. Or read sqlite's page on CVEs[2]. The sqlite issues alone would make this a non-starter, because you're not gonna convince everyone in every piece of software you use to update their version of sqlite.

[1] https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2023/08/26/cve-2020-19909-is-eve... [2] https://www.sqlite.org/cves.html

Re:Ask HN: I’m an FCC Commissioner proposing regulation of I... by charcircuit on Tuesday September 05, 2023 @12:39PM (#37394291)
Not all CVE are real vulnerabilities.