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This is the key problem. The manufacturer might even consider the poor security as a feature (for them)
by DougN7 9y ago
This is the key problem. The manufacturer might even consider the poor security as a feature (for them)
- bigiain 9y agoThere's a couple of other problems there too - the "manufacturer" is often some unknown and unfindable usually Chinese contract electronics assembly firm, who had little to do with the design or software. The company who contracted them to do it often no longer exists a few years down the track. The place it gets sold can easily be somewhere like Ebay, AliExpress, or Kickstarter - where the vendor really isn't going to care once your payment has cleared. (Source: I was the platform security guy for an IoT startup in 2013/14, for a company who no longer exists and who's only product run is still out there somewhere no longer getting security updates...)