MikeFarm
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Hi all
The Consumer Electronics Show (CES 2021) has just finished where companies show off their latest products. After that show was finished
six right-to-repair advocates assembled to present Repair.org's second annual "Worst in Show Awards" This is a selection of the "the least private, least secure, least repairable, and least sustainable gadgets at CES."
Congratulations to John Deere for getting the Community Choice poll for Worst in Show. Gay Gordon-Byrne, executive director of Repair.org, said that her organization is fighting the company in every state legislature to make its products easier to repair.
John Deere also received a Worst in Show from Paul Roberts, founder of securerepairs.org. He chose industrial equipment maker John Deere's fully autonomous 8R tractor, not because of known vulnerabilities but because of the way the company engages with the security community and the inevitability of bugs in the software governing such a complicated machine.
Here are some links: Worst of CES Awards: The least private, least secure, least repairable, and least sustainable at Worst of CES: Right-to-repair name and shames terrible tech and https://www.repair.org and ‘Worst In Show’ Highlights Fails on Repair, Security, Sustainability at CES The ere is a Youtube clip of the awards hosted by author and activist Cory Doctorow but its a bit slow moving at the start
Mike
The Consumer Electronics Show (CES 2021) has just finished where companies show off their latest products. After that show was finished
six right-to-repair advocates assembled to present Repair.org's second annual "Worst in Show Awards" This is a selection of the "the least private, least secure, least repairable, and least sustainable gadgets at CES."
Congratulations to John Deere for getting the Community Choice poll for Worst in Show. Gay Gordon-Byrne, executive director of Repair.org, said that her organization is fighting the company in every state legislature to make its products easier to repair.
John Deere also received a Worst in Show from Paul Roberts, founder of securerepairs.org. He chose industrial equipment maker John Deere's fully autonomous 8R tractor, not because of known vulnerabilities but because of the way the company engages with the security community and the inevitability of bugs in the software governing such a complicated machine.
Here are some links: Worst of CES Awards: The least private, least secure, least repairable, and least sustainable at Worst of CES: Right-to-repair name and shames terrible tech and https://www.repair.org and ‘Worst In Show’ Highlights Fails on Repair, Security, Sustainability at CES The ere is a Youtube clip of the awards hosted by author and activist Cory Doctorow but its a bit slow moving at the start
Mike