Honestly I think open-source and sane-defaults are the answer to this. I use to have one of these cameras, but before this news broke out, I'd replaced it with

Honestly I think open-source and sane-defaults are the answer to this. I use to have one of these cameras, but before this news broke out, I'd replaced it with an rpi. My lights are controlled with an rpi, and code I've written myself. My computer talks to me. All of these things are doable with open-source, it's just that we're prioritizing closed-source devices. FOSS doesn't solve every problem we currently have with IoT, but it can if we give it enough power to.