Indeed, lots of smart people have been saying that the Internet of Things vision is naive, counterproductive, and potentially dangerous. Some recent polls have

Indeed, lots of smart people have been saying that the Internet of Things vision is naive, counterproductive, and potentially dangerous. Some recent polls have indicated that most consumers at least have a sense that random cheap Internet-connected devices are problematic, so these sorts of stories are at least making an impact. For better or worse, this trend is going to keep going until something truly egregious happens and either market forces or government regulation steps in. Hopefully we'll see a pattern similar to that we've seen with desktop computers, where there'll be some messy worms or viruses that infect enough people that the big players in the field start taking these threats seriously.