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Most people aren't sufficiently informed to be able to make those decisions in a reasonable way, and having the Wirecutter provide this kind of advice without e
by mjg59 10y ago
Most people aren't sufficiently informed to be able to make those decisions in a reasonable way, and having the Wirecutter provide this kind of advice without explaining that there are cases where some people do need to be more paranoid is harming those people. Telling people that everything will be fine when we know that for some people there's a much higher probability that it won't be shouldn't be acceptable.
- enraged_camel 10y ago>>Most people aren't sufficiently informed to be able to make those decisions in a reasonable way Exactly. The vast majority of people aren't aware that their "smart thermostat" can be hacked and used to perform a denial of service attack on websites.
- anc84 10y agoI'd wager that the vast majority of people also does not care the slightest about that. The manufacturer is at fault for that, not the person who bought the device. Unless people themselves get any drawback, why should they care?
- enraged_camel 10y agoWell, it's like how people used to not care about leaving their wifi access points unprotected back in the day. It took several years of news stories of neighbors downloading child porn through those WAPs (and things like that) before people became aware of the risks and password protection became standard practice.