The success of Mirai is hardly the fault of the security industry. The security industry has been howling about lax default device security for decades, and how

The success of Mirai is hardly the fault of the security industry. The security industry has been howling about lax default device security for decades, and how dumb it is to put your TV directly on the Internet, much less your refrigerator or your lightswitch. The electronics industry is the correct target. The only way out of this mess is regulation of what types of devices can be sold and how they must be secured. The electronics industry and online retailers need to get together and figure this out and come up with a UL for IoT, or the government will step in and make them all a lot more unhappy.