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Belkin shows tech firms getting too comfortable with bricking customers’ stuff (arstechnica.com)
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[-] [email protected] 35 points 2 weeks ago

This is how you tell your customers they should not buy any products from you in the future.

It goes beyond their IoT devices to everything they make. You cannot trust Belkin to provide you with meaningful support for any device if they get bored and they may kill your device, particularly if it is cloud connected, even before it is out is warranty. Anything which needs critical updates for security reasons is affected.

So even though I never had any of these products, I will not be buying Belkin ever again because the risk is too high.

Buy from someone else.

this post was submitted on 12 Jul 2025
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