Inevitably the long-term solution is going to be more layers of abstraction. Web application firewalls for every wifi device in your router, for example, or ope

Inevitably the long-term solution is going to be more layers of abstraction. Web application firewalls for every wifi device in your router, for example, or operating systems maintained by cloud vendors (for “edge devices”). If always transmitting connectivity isn’t required, maybe HomeKit-style app-based (offline or app-based updating) devices that use other devices as repeaters which can then be reverse engineered from their apps (largely illegally in many countries). I don’t think we’ll see open specs unless Apple or Google or government make a significant push, or a future large-scale chipset manufacturer uses open source as a way to both get customers and maintain long-term support for their chips. But we know how well GPL works with most hardware (poorly, unusably, etc.)