That's ridiculous, why? I'd understand some sort of certification process and requiring certified products to have ample warnings but why should it be illegal?
If I want to buy cheap hardware or software that isn't certified I should be able to.
If I want to buy cheap hardware or software that isn't certified I should be able to.
Both such devices do as much if not more harm to your neighbor as to you. An electrical appliance that interferes with TV broadcasts may not bother you but it bothers your neighbor. An IoT camera that's hacked to DoS a hospital may not bother you but it bothers the patients of the hospital.
In some fictional Libertarian wonderland, these problems could be dealt with neighbors suing neighbors but in the real world we need the state to regulate products with serious cost "externalities".
You have a right to pose a danger to yourself. You don't have a right to pose a danger to others.
In fact it is then inconsequential whether some device puts you in direct danger or in danger of somebody comming after you for putting them in danger.
Right. So you, the little guy, is going to shift the blame to a rich company that does this for a living. Say it's a company such as Google which makes some IoT devices. Would you be able to prove in court, and in front of their engineers and lawyers that they've sold you an insecure device? Do you even have access to their source code?
Maybe our current situation is what it might've been like when we had devices that could generate and receive RF emissions but before there was an FCC/global regulatory distribution of spectrum.
If that analogy holds at all, perhaps that might be why it should be illegal to manufacture or import devices which don't conform.