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That's essentially impossible for this class of device, though. While this case is a bug in the on-device API, there are countless others involving previously unknown vulnerabilities in widely-trusted software components. Heartbleed comes to mind.

Hardware needs to be liberated from unsupported software, and users should be made aware of vulnerabilities and support status. Making software vendors liable for future exploits of unknown vulnerabilities opens a can of worms that would have non-neglible consequences for everyone who writes software, and not all of those would be beneficial to security.



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