Arnt 9 months ago

I noticed this part: "generally, the directive sees vendors liable as long as they have control over their product after a sale."

That condition makes sense, at least at first.

  • karmakaze 9 months ago

    If I were doing IoT business in EU, devices sold there would be set to never update to eliminate that liability. Not a bad outcome (IMO) actually.

    • eqvinox 9 months ago

      Not sure what the definition of "control" is in this case. Might include any type of cloud connectivity.

      (I'd be quite happy to get no-cloud products just from vendors getting out of liability, tyvm!)

beardyw 9 months ago

> The directive also classifies the lack of a software update mechanism to be a product defect

That's a tricky one. Is it limited to connected software, or the software in my Christmas lights?

fithisux 9 months ago

Pressure to avoid non memory safe / non type safe languages.