alt Hacker NewsPeople are praising how this new age of owning our stuff is here, while actually all this will bring is stricter lockdown in every level of the supply chain. Enjoy while it lasts, but I expect even more closed stuff, and less openness from these t.rends
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If I can't hack it with local access and an AI, a random hacker can't do it either.
I do lament the loss of control, but the increase in security will be objectively good for humanity as a whole.
While closedness is bad, I assumed peripherals like these were closed anyway; the fact they were hackable implies they were not secure enough.
So if closed means they are secure, which 99.99% of end users expect, I'm actually okay with it.
Well, the takeway is that we should keep pushing to write everything in Assembly and C, so that human errors allow such "ownership".
The other option is to look for better products that take simplicity, security, ownership and verifiability seriously. I think there's a market. Consider Precusor[0] who's design philosophy could be duplicated. Such a company could become the Anker of computer peripherals: build quality products that decommoditize markets. Now is the time to make such a company, because by the time the peripherapocolypse hits (in a few months) by then it will be too late.
[0] https://www.crowdsupply.com/sutajio-kosagi/precursor/updates...