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To me, that feeling is a fundamental warning that something is deeply wrong with the way we handle privacy in modern society. It should be completely unaccepta
by TrevorJ 11y ago
To me, that feeling is a fundamental warning that something is deeply wrong with the way we handle privacy in modern society.
It should be completely unacceptable that we have to worry about this.
- krapp 11y agoThe incentive isn't there for building secure IoT products, but products that use online connectivity to offset costs by capturing value back from the consumer. When every refrigerator built monitors your purchases and consumption on behalf of the manufacturer, the store you bought it from and the companies who made the food in it, and probably the pizza box you just stuffed in there knows what shows you're watching, what are people going to do, just go back to using iceboxes?
- TrevorJ 11y agoAnd even if devices are designed to be secure, what good does it do when agencies with nearly unlimited resources actively try to subvert it?