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It's difficult to stop at this point. When your competitors are doing it, you are in a hard spot, even though you know it's absurd. They advertise it as smart,
by hdjjhhvvhga 5y ago
It's difficult to stop at this point. When your competitors are doing it, you are in a hard spot, even though you know it's absurd. They advertise it as smart, intelligent, new generation - and your device without IoT seems like from the 20th century.
The antidote to this could be a hardware switch, i.e. the option to completely disable wireless connectivity if the customer wishes so - in a way that is tamper-proof. But I haven't seen products that implement this so far.
- solarkraft 5y agoThe antidote is regulation. A switch is not enough to prevent millions of devices from being part of a botnet if the consumers don’t see the advantage of switching it off (“why would I”). There needs to be significant motivation (fines for participating in DoS attacks) or a different default.