While you're correct that there are ways to prevent this kind of thing happening, how many end consumers will do it? I think it was a valid experiment, he got i

While you're correct that there are ways to prevent this kind of thing happening, how many end consumers will do it? I think it was a valid experiment, he got it out of the box and did a minimal setup to prevent his network from being compromised, but not the "IoT" device per-se, and then just waited on the bait to catch something.