Which is part of what causes tragedies of the commons, yes. I totally get your point, and it's valid, but it's being demonstrated right now that the current ap

Which is part of what causes tragedies of the commons, yes. I totally get your point, and it's valid, but it's being demonstrated right now that the current appropriate strategies have failed rather spectacularly. When appropriate measures have massively failed, what are the alternatives? Vigilante actions are one option, as is "watch the whole thing burn down", and probably an infinite variety of stuff in the middle and along different axes. What's your preferred option? edit: also, it's not quite "may [do] something worse". Insecure IoT things are used as botnets. Frequently. It's not a hypothetical threat at all, it's just a question of scale / frequency.