[GJim]

It kills those hardware startups that attempt to make money by selling us insecure crap?

See also, the GDPR killing startups that attempt to invade our privacy and exploit personal data without permission.

[logicchains]

And then there are no European hardware startups and your own options for hardware are Chinese and American, both with backdoors.

[edb_123]

From what I gather, the cyber resilience act applies to all products placed on the EU market, regardless of whether the manufacturer is based inside or outside of the EU. So European hardware vendors will be competing on the same terms as American and Chinese ones when it comes to the CRA.

[GJim]

Interesting that US Americans think letting their companies do whatever they want everywhere (as they currently do) is the better "strategy".

[dathinab]

it sometimes feels (some part of) US citizens are so used to companies systematically abusing them that they think it's normal

and some other part seem to have "I have suffered so you must suffer too" mentality

and in generally there seem to be an increasing lack of basic human empathy ... which is very worrisome

[GJim]

A significant percentage of HN readership are those working in US Adtech, who's very salaries are dependent on abusing peoples privacy. Hardly surprising a hefty part of the HN demographic slants towards opposing privacy laws (for software and hardware).