The FTC claimed this was unfair business practices, because since the router had other unrelated vulnerabilities, setting a password did not, in fact, secure the device. D-Link spent millions litigating this before the case was dropped.
I agree it's of niche value - but wouldn't that argument also work against nutrition labels? Unactionable isn't the right word here, it would reduce the cost of an assessment. Sure, most people don't want that, but most people don't care how much fiber is in peanut butter.
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I think we are still debating shallow vs. deep B.O.M.s here. Nutrition labels are extremely shallow and reflect arbitrary measurements. They don't measure radiation dosage, for example. If they did, bananas would become a lot less popular.
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But proponents of software BOMs aren't asking for superficial lists, but detailed lists of everything that goes into a product.
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People who do need precise nutritional information need those labels, and people who need an assessment to deploy something in a critical context would want a bom? I think I could see the argument that it's too high a burden for vendors for too few niche users, though.
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