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Why are new devices dependent on the internet but made without a thought to the security of the user?

• pas 6y ago
  Consumers in general have no internal model of security. It's enough that there's a sticker on the box saying that "even more secure than last year" or "2021-ready security". It's cheap, it works for a year or two. It's apparently more than enough.
• vkou 6y ago
  Because the demonstrable[1] security risks for most people of their vacuum cleaner or thermostat getting pwned are non-existent. [1] I'm not talking about theoretical geek-fantasy concerns about how the Mossad, or some other sufficiently sinister and all-powerful organization[2], can stop your heart by varying the power setting on your internet-connected Roomba, or map out the internal layout of your apartment and fly a poison-dart-tipped AI-controlled drone into it. I'm talking about actual, demonstrable harm to the typical end user. People grousing on the internet about security have done an incredibly poor job of this. [2] That for some reason is futzing around with thermostat zero-days, instead of just taping a bomb to the underside of your car, or scrubbing your teapot with polonium, or jabbing you with a poison-tipped umbrella.