>But MQTT suffers from all of these same drawbacks, does it not? Your MQTT IoT device is a client, not a server, so you don't need to deal with no NAT. Even i

>But MQTT suffers from all of these same drawbacks, does it not? Your MQTT IoT device is a client, not a server, so you don't need to deal with no NAT. Even if you're outdated and has security problems, as long as the server doesn't exploit you (and filters out the requests that exploit you), then you're safe. It's really hard achieve that with an outdated HTTP server.