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The FCC actually could have a decent mechanism to force this. The documentation for Part 15 compliance often has a confidentiality request for certain device internals. They could have some uncloaking mechanism where that information is released if the company is no longer supporting the device.

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That's a pretty slick idea actually. I've been battling on the upstream reference design angle as I think that's where a lot of security issues truly come from. Release of device internals probably wouldn't help fix those upstream references unless it also covered support the drivers of individual electronic chips from their producers as well, but it definitely would help opensource devs to potentially fix things for devices they love.

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