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The consumer market desires cheap, fast, and push button easy solutions. The manufacturers have to comply, and due to technological and financial constraints th
by nom 10y ago
The consumer market desires cheap, fast, and push button easy solutions. The manufacturers have to comply, and due to technological and financial constraints they opt to open up ports and use fixed default passwords. It's not going to change until the consumer is aware of the risks, and I can't imagine that happening soon. We might see 100m node botnets before that.
- M_Grey 10y agoIt doesn't desire that in a vacuum, it's been heavily marketed to. Meanwhile there is no marketing to try and extol the value of not connecting your toaster, because of course, that doesn't sell more toasters.
- TeMPOraL 10y ago> The manufacturers have to comply They don't have to do shit. They chose it themselves. IoT market is pretty much pure marketing/hype creation. Current solutions don't make any sense, and are pushed to people who don't understand it. There are deeper problems here though. Current smartphone model doesn't make any sense either, but this is something even many techies are blind about. Like apps, third of which shouldn't exist in the first place, and another third should be OS-level components. Interoperability sucks because everyone is trying to make a lock-in business out of their small part in the solution. But I'm just a grumpy techie myself. Until the world gets its shit together (i.e. never), I'll continue to build my smart home out of Raspberry Pis and DIY components, while also telling everyone to avoid anything that's done over cloud.