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The really shitty thing is that vulnerable devices get blacklisted en masse, so all legitimate users get stuck with 480p video content on streaming services. The Nexus 5 got this treatment, as I understand it, because it was too easy to extract the keys.


Not a Netflix user here: Are you saying that paying customers get cut off from higher video quality, that they are possibly paying for, and pressured into buying new devices? That shit should be illegal!


Yes, that's exactly what happens!


It provides a good incentive for manufacturers to invest into security for their devices.


No, it provides no incentive at all!

It's the users who suffer when this happens, not the manufacturers. The manufacturers couldn't care less, the money is already in the bank.

If the manufacturers were required to replace all the revoked devices at their cost, that would be a real incentive.


Manufactures suffer reputational damage from it. Also keys could be revoked before they finish selling through all of their stock of produced phones.




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