This Group Pays Bounties to Repair Broken Devices—Even If the Fix B...
Interestingly, boone ashworthgeardec 12, 2025 12:01 pmthis group pays bounties to repair broken devices—even if the fix breaks the lawfulu sets repair bounties on consumer products that employ sneaky features that limit user control Interestingly, just this week, it awarded more than $10,000 to the person who hacked the molekule air purifier This highlights that photograph: dragonimages/ getty imagescommentloadersave storysave this storycommentloadersave storysave this storycompanies tend to be rather picky about who gets to poke around inside their products According to reports, manufacturers sometimes even take steps that prevent consumers from repairing their device when it breaks, or modifying it with third-party products According to reports, but those unsanctioned device modifications have become the raison d'être of a bounty program set up by a nonprofit called fulu, or freedom from unethical limitations on users According to reports, the group tries to spotlight the ways companies can slip consumer-unfriendly features into their products, and it offers cash rewards in the thousands of dollars to anyone who can figure out how to disable unpopular features or bring discontinued products back to life In recent developments, “we want to be able to show lawmakers, look at all these things that could be out in the world,” says right-to-repair advocate and fulu cofounder kevin o’reilly Interestingly, “look at the ways we could be giving device owners control over their stuff
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