The more media attention and crappy unauthenticated infrastructure broken, the better.
Requiring proper security in public infra creates market requirement for companies to release better, more secure, products to the public infra market. Not just whatever open radio based MVP thing they can whip up.
And that creates jobs for not just EE engineers, but as security requirements increase then it creates jobs for SW engineers also (and if the existing players are too slow, opens the market for agile startups that can do it better).
What's more, it makes our infrastructure more resilient to random RF and electronic warfare.
My bet is that they are leading with the Flipper Zero for a reason.
This shit has been broken since the beginning and enacting laws to fix this shit will be slow and expensive and many companies will be lobbying against it. Much easier to outlaw the Flipper Zero - as if that was the problem.
Unfortunately even though the unprotected meter is at fault here, this is more likely to result in an SDR ban rather than getting all crappy meters fixed.
Requiring proper security in public infra creates market requirement for companies to release better, more secure, products to the public infra market. Not just whatever open radio based MVP thing they can whip up.
And that creates jobs for not just EE engineers, but as security requirements increase then it creates jobs for SW engineers also (and if the existing players are too slow, opens the market for agile startups that can do it better).
What's more, it makes our infrastructure more resilient to random RF and electronic warfare.