> Not designing an IoT product in the first place seems to me the right way to avoid this issue Unfortunately there is demand for these products and companies

> Not designing an IoT product in the first place seems to me the right way to avoid this issue Unfortunately there is demand for these products and companies will always fill that demand if there is money to be made. If users want to control things in their house remotely, the commands need to be routed through a server one way or another. This is a matter of convenience and I'm sure most users would purchase a product they can control remotely vs. one they can only control on their home network. > the only option is a distributed and/or federated network What would a distributed network for this sort of product look like?