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I think that's what I was saying. Vehicle control software is the only place I think where certified code makes sense. When others' safety can be put at risk by your crappy coding. That's not a copyright/licencing issue, or even something solved by making chips harder to flash, it's a vehicle law.

TFA makes it sound like there are many others. What else is there?



Liability like in any other products.

It is about time people start returning software, or getting free repairs if the software is faulty, instead of rebooting and hoping for the best.

The European cybersecurity laws in a few jurisdictions are already a good step into that direction.




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