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by userbinator
2166 days ago
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Firmware updates are good. They can patch security issues and they can improve different aspects of the device. The security being the best plus obviously. The point is that there are no "security issues" in a dumb media player like the DVD player I have. Suppose an "attacker" (and that is stretching the definition a lot...) can create a disc that can overflow a buffer somewhere and crash the player or cause it to do something "interesting", and I have been somehow tricked into attempting to play this disc --- so what? It's not connected to the Internet, the firmware is read-only, there's literally nothing of value to attack. I'll just eject the disc (manually if necessary) and not play it again. Instead this stupid "update culture" has created horribly buggy software that's barely functional "because we can always change it", and now we somehow need an Internet-connected media player,along with all the downsides --- including security --- that brings, just so they can (try to) silently attempt to fix some bugs that should never have gotten out in the first place? My experience tells me that they will fix one thing and break something else in the process, so there's overall no real improvement. |
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There is also no Netflix playback, which is a very common use case for consumers.
BTW, the internet connection can be used for key revocation as a way to combat piracy and consumer choice. So, it's "worse" than "just" tracking.