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Belkin shows tech firms getting too comfortable with bricking customers' stuff

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83 points speckx | 2 comments | 11 Jul 25 19:18 UTC | HN request time: 0.41s | source
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greatgib ◴[11 Jul 25 19:38 UTC] No.44536107[source]▶
I'm not against manufacturer stopping support for their Internet Of Shits devices, but there should be a law making it mandatory for them to release source code, protocol specs and whatever is needed so that a man of the craft could be able to do what is necessary to continue using the product that he bought.
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1. altairprime ◴[11 Jul 25 22:10 UTC] No.44537273[source]▶
In lieu of a law, a class action against Bellingham that publicly states “we will settle for $1 in exchange for you publishing all protocol docs, device firmware source code, and any private keys used to authenticate firmware installed for these devices, so that competitors can pick up where Belkin left off” would absolutely hold their feet to the fire on this.
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2. greatgib ◴[12 Jul 25 10:51 UTC] No.44541068[source]▶
Sadly in most countries we don't have "class action".