All this IOT business got off on the wrong foot. We knew 20 years ago how vulnerabilities turn up. So we've also known that designing something to withstand t

All this IOT business got off on the wrong foot. We knew 20 years ago how vulnerabilities turn up. So we've also known that designing something to withstand the hostile internet many years into the future would require an entirely different approach to software engineering than taking commodity software and flashing them in with some integration of custom bits. But nobody stopped the vendors and it was cheaper than the competent alternatives.