Security? Access? Support? (Score 2)

When I was reading through this, I was very impressed by the Timothy's response to the article, but I wanted to note a few things that may be important.

I've seen others mention the importance of this box in the grander scheme of things, both pushing against M$ and the existing game console companies (Sony, etc.) and I think that these are all valid points, but...

Who is going to 'root' this system? Are there going to be instant upgrades available like the Flash upgradable I-Opener Internet Appliance? Since the system is run on software on top of the hardware and not from eeprom and chip saved commands like the game consoles, but with a REAL OS ... When does it get upgraded? Who does the upgrading? Who gets access to root?

Another problem, then, is also security. We have a REAL OS here, connecting to the Internet. How long before these boxes start getting hacked? What do consumers do then? Buy an upgrade? Buy a patch?

Where then, does the line get drawn between this box taunting the world with Linux and the ever?-powerful M$ get drawn?