Ask HN: I’m an FCC Commissioner proposing regulation of IoT security updates
Maybe we need to approach it differently?<p>There will always be an &quot;End of Life&quot; date.  And there will always be a user using the product beyond it.<p>So my question is: How do we make it safe?<p>My first thought is a &quot;deadman&#x27;s switch&quot;.  If a device doesn&#x27;t get or see some form of a signal, it just stops updating and disables IOT features.  If the user wishes it to come alive again, there&#x27;s a button they can press to have it &quot;Check for updates&quot; if there are none, it tells the user it is at &quot;End of Software Updates&quot; and &quot;Certain services will be disabled.&quot; etc.<p>We can&#x27;t stop the issue.  We can decide what to do once a vendor decides to stop updating... and make sure that final revision is as safe as it can be.  Preferably non-networked (including bluetooth etc).