• Petter1@discuss.tchncs.de
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    23 hours ago

    “right to root” would prevent so much eWaste.
    I would love a variant that is like, if you stop delivering security and minor fixes/backports to a device, you have to give access to root or better even to the bootloader.

    • ☂️-@lemmy.ml
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      14 hours ago

      better yet, open source it when it gets abandoned.

      full on, no excuses. all board schematics, source code and documentation.

      shit, require it from the start.

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      15 hours ago

      The problem is that it allows users to detect when they’re connected to a phony cell tower like the ones police and ICE use to intercept communications, and we Can’t Have That.