• Makeitstop@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    A manufacturer bricking your device remotely should be treated as destruction of property, no different than if they walked in and smashed it with a baseball bat.

      • wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        24 hours ago

        I don’t think it’s a matter of understanding (the seller can just arbitrarily choose to break what I bought from them is a simple concept), I think it’s a matter of exposure. As long as their things keep working for what feels like long enough to them, they won’t even see this happening.

        And the average consumer isn’t tech saavy enough to do what this guy did to get it remotely bricked in the first place.