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It probably doesn't help that seemingly everyone is slapping a SoC into anything that has electricity, spending 0 time/effort to harden the device, providing li
by scrps 9y ago
It probably doesn't help that seemingly everyone is slapping a SoC into anything that has electricity, spending 0 time/effort to harden the device, providing little to no guidance to end-users on best security practices then pushing them out as fast as they can be manufactured at a fat markup.
I recently saw an IoT room humidifier... Really?! How badly do you need to humidifier your (presumably unoccupied) room remotely? My garage door opener was internet-capable until I disable it. Some objects having remote accessibility makes sense but a lot of it is wow-factor marketing.
- noobiemcfoob 9y agoJust because you can't see a use for a connected device does not mean the use doesn't exist. And given the amount of time, energy and money that goes into developing any manufactured product, it doesn't happen on accident. There is a large market of people who have property too large to spend walking around all day turning on and off devices to keep everything copacetic. Simple, arguably stupid, devices with IoT capability can greatly reduce this. Then you move into any application slightly larger than a personal home and the power of managing all these devices with software at scale becomes immense. Specifically for the IoT room humidifier, I've seen such things in labs studying bugs or other exotic life that needs proper controls. These labs are setup by scientists who are just trying to get the conditions ideal and keep them that way and becomes an interesting mix of industrialized equipment and odd one-offs like a connected humidifier.