Ask HN: I’m an FCC Commissioner proposing regulation of IoT security updates
It sounds like extra regulation, and thus a large spread out cost for society, for something that hasn't seemed like a real problem. I worry that this would stifle innovation in development of products by small companies and individual developers to meet regulatory burdens to get govt stamps of approval, while giving an advantage to large companies that can handle regulatory burdens.<p>IoT is an experimental field that is dominated by people fiddling in their garage.<p>If harm comes from their use, that is where tort law comes into play, and that doesn't seem to something that is a common occurrence except in the fantasy of doomsayers talking about ovens that are weaponized - all without thinking about companies that make ovens and how this would already be their primary concern.