> An individual consumer who purchases a poorly protected network device is unlikely to suffer any meaningful individual harm
It opens the door to liability for companies who purchase insecure network devices. If your peers are buying good hardware while you're buying self-identifying garbage, someone harmed by a botnet running on your metal has a better argument, now, that you were knowingly reckless.
It opens the door to liability for companies who purchase insecure network devices. If your peers are buying good hardware while you're buying self-identifying garbage, someone harmed by a botnet running on your metal has a better argument, now, that you were knowingly reckless.