alt Hacker NewsWithout quantifying the cost to society that someone's web-browser crashes sometimes, it's hard to make a rational case that this issue is so dire that it needs specific regulation.
I'm not sure making it illegal to sell consumer grade hardware is the boon for the people you imagine
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etbe • today at 12:02 AM
No-one ever proposed making non-ECC RAM illegal, that's a straw-man.
Restricting risky items is standard practice for all governments. All the "use by" dates on food etc are from government regulation. The current experiments with "raw milk" shows that you can get away with flouting food safety regulations and not have immediate problems.
Crash is the best-case outcome for a browser bit flip. Here's bitsquatting:
https://ripe92.ripe.net/programme/meeting-plan/sessions/112/...