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.
But how do you make the average consumer understand that they should be angry about this?
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.
Real concern with modern cars too
Thank goodness, I was always too poor to own one of these things
Same here. I wanted a 23andMe test, and now I’m so glad I could never afford it. Same for Roombas and modern cars.
