Yeah, I mean, who hasn't heard about the time the UL people snuck a backdoor into someone's lighting so the DEA could kill pot-farms. Or that time when Consumer Reports forced car manufacturers to give the highway patrol a backdoor to prevent speeding.
Ignoring the history of non-government regulation, there's a reason why the FCC isn't the agency which recorded everyone's phone calls. There are huge civil liberties issues right now but they're orthogonal to consumer protection; we'll need to rein in the NSA no matter how or if we decide to do anything about companies shipping shoddy devices.
Ignoring the history of non-government regulation, there's a reason why the FCC isn't the agency which recorded everyone's phone calls. There are huge civil liberties issues right now but they're orthogonal to consumer protection; we'll need to rein in the NSA no matter how or if we decide to do anything about companies shipping shoddy devices.