> But that dream turned into frustration when the company behind Jooki went bankrupt, leaving countless devices bricked and families frustrated.<p>It’s situations like this that make me believe that software should only qualify for copyright protection if its source code is published. We do this with patents precisely so that inventions don’t disappear when their creators do. Why don’t we do this with software too?
<i>This design appears to be intended for over-the-air (OTA) updates but, if exploited by a malicious actor, could enable remote code execution (RCE).</i><p>RCE is what every automatic update functionality essentially is.