> “Sadly, the powerful tech manufacturers won out over the everyday Californians and small businesses that would benefit from Right to Repair..."
Can someone elaborate specifically on how something like this failed with, apparently, so much support?
- There are references to specific dollar amounts in the bill with no provision for automatic adjustment due to inflation.
- There is the following passage.
“(2) For products with a wholesale price to the retailer of not less than fifty dollars ($50) and not more than ninety-nine dollars and ninety-nine cents ($99.99), that contains an electronic security lock or other security-related function, the manufacturer shall also make available to owners of the product, service and repair facilities, and service dealers, on fair and reasonable terms, any documentation, tools, software and parts needed to disable the lock or function, and to reset the lock or function when disabled, during the course of the inspection, diagnosis, maintenance, or repair of a product for at least three years after the date a product model or type was manufactured, regardless of whether the three-year period exceeds the warranty period for the product.”
That sure seems like a requirement for a secure enclave backdoor.
See ya later, legislator!!
Apple uses hardware pairing. Without such a tool you couldn't even swap two genuine parts with eachother.
> the manufacturer shall also make available [...] for at least three years after the date a product model or type was manufactured
How much you want to bet that was put in to allow manufacturers to supply software tools that the manufacturer can either remote-disable, or have time-bombs built in, or both?
Watch a cell manufacturer shrug and come out with the "YZ 5 Pro", manufacture it for a year, and then come out with the YZ 5 Pro A" the next year, etc.
Seems like this got poison-pilled just like a lot of gun legislation which is written to focus on things easily changed so they're not effective. "Guns over 14 inches with a vented barrel grip installed during manufacture" write the lobbyists, and then they send a memo to gun manufacturers to plan on adjusting their tooling to make 13.95 inch barrels, or leave off the barrel grip, easily installed by dealers or buyers.)
Easier to be disingenious than "make it my issue."