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throwaway89201yesterday at 11:12 PM1 replyview on HN

Cyber Resilience Act [1], which is well-intentioned, and doesn't outright forbid user access to firmware, but most vendors will take the easy road and outright block user-modifiable software (if they didn't already), so that their completely closed source, obfuscated and vulnerable version is the only version allowed on their devices.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyber_Resilience_Act


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kQq9oHeAz6wLLStoday at 12:08 AM

Ah, EU-only. That explains why I've never heard of it, among other things.

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