Comment by josephcsible
Comment by josephcsible 2 days ago
If you did this somewhere it was illegal, wouldn't that be you violating local laws, not Google violating local laws? If it's the former, then Google shouldn't have "fixed" this "vulnerability", because things you own shouldn't enforce laws against you.
Yes. The argument will be that because it's expensive to police everyone, lawmakers will simply require anyone selling massmarket goods to do the policing instead.
If you're making a non-compliant device in your garage for you and your friends, the police might come. If you're trying to sell it broadly, the police will come, regardless of the user.
I'm for freedom of choice, but pushing regulations up the manufacturing stack is definitiely more efficient use of my tax money.