Ask HN: I’m an FCC Commissioner proposing regulation of IoT security updates
How about requiring devices to accept alternate, Free Software firmware, from the upstream provider?<p>At the very least, it should be possible after some time period of no updates or insecurity, but a blanket requirement is less susceptible to games.<p>Probably the best thing to happen to wireless routers is OpenWRT and the other descendents of the WRT firmware.