Im not a security guru, but I've thought of a couple solutions to the problem of botnets. 1) A consortium of manufacturers of IoT devices banding together and

Im not a security guru, but I've thought of a couple solutions to the problem of botnets. 1) A consortium of manufacturers of IoT devices banding together and signing an "autopatch" or "autohack" agreement. This would be an open source, public hack-and-patch society that freezes out any manufacturers that don't agree to it. All customers would simply sign in their EULA that their devices are authorized to be "patched" by any means necessary if found to be insecure by the auto-hackers. 2) As botnets at the Mirai scale are now a matter of national security, make the NSA do its job and do roughly what is outlined in 1. Controversial, sure, but you can be damn sure that they already know about these unpatched devices and how to exploit them.