IMHBLO, the "upgrade" process is really a systemic institutionalized design for obsolescence built right into the entire 'technology' field. I've worked at some BIG names in "technology" for the last 20 years as we watched our economy change over to a technology based economy from a manufacturing economy. Granted, semiconductors are 'manufactured' but few can afford to build a Fab, especially in the U.S. Technology is a 'transition' industry. Where it leads I'm not sure of, but to have and allow (from day one) so many holes in that technology and the code that operates it indicates the industry has no intentions of "securing" it's "proprietary technology" or "code", maybe for ever but at least until it gets to the "final" solution, what ever that is.
I just can't see the justification for the government to have and hold proprietary information it has no rights to. If it should some day be determined that some corporate irresponsibility or collaboration in a criminal or treasonous context fell on the shoulders of corporate officers, I'd favor prosecution. But not release of the proprietary information itself. As it is government information and citizen information in the governments cognizance is considerably compromised by their "security". Only in the context of socialist nationalization (even then it's hard to justify) does this make the slightest bit of sense.
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IMHBLO, the "upgrade" process is really a systemic institutionalized design for obsolescence built right into the entire 'technology' field. I've worked at some BIG names in "technology" for the last 20 years as we watched our economy change over to a technology based economy from a manufacturing economy. Granted, semiconductors are 'manufactured' but few can afford to build a Fab, especially in the U.S. Technology is a 'transition' industry. Where it leads I'm not sure of, but to have and allow (from day one) so many holes in that technology and the code that operates it indicates the industry has no intentions of "securing" it's "proprietary technology" or "code", maybe for ever but at least until it gets to the "final" solution, what ever that is.
I just can't see the justification for the government to have and hold proprietary information it has no rights to. If it should some day be determined that some corporate irresponsibility or collaboration in a criminal or treasonous context fell on the shoulders of corporate officers, I'd favor prosecution. But not release of the proprietary information itself. As it is government information and citizen information in the governments cognizance is considerably compromised by their "security". Only in the context of socialist nationalization (even then it's hard to justify) does this make the slightest bit of sense.