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by swiley 3506 days ago
>We should hold manufacturers accountable for not aggressively pushing security updates on their users.

There's really no way to /force/ companies to support products they release like that. The company may not even exist a few years down the road. You could force them to release the firmware source so the users/community can patch it themselves but I don't see a way to do what you're saying.

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If you could sue over security this wouldn't be an issue: we'd actually have a bug program that worked.

Also, the market would be harder to enter. I don't see a problem with this.

How would you sure a company that doesn't exist anymore?