except they will be (very) easy pickings for malware that do their own thing. e.g. Mirai botnet.
it's very backward to suggest planned obsolescence as a security feature instead of open software/standards
it's very backward to suggest planned obsolescence as a security feature instead of open software/standards
That might work for _some_ devices with extremely large user bases.
Devices with specialist properties or a low number of users sound like they'd be very tricky to have that approach work reliably.
That being said, if there's wide adoption of "known good" base level firmware (eg powering on, init device capabilities) then maybe the specialist stuff could be add on's or something. eg modularising things might be a way to get closer to the goal