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The security angle is also the way to legislate this stuff away.



Can you explain more explicitly what you mean by that?


Right now, businesses with no expertise in software can make poorly-designed IoTs because there is no cost associated with it.

Forbidding such things will be like whac-a-mole; but forcing businesses to provide security update support for 5 or 10 years if their product offers internet, wifi, or cellular data connections would make some businesses balk.

As with all things, these costs are off-loaded to the consumer and it leads to some serious problems when scaled.

From the business side, having a quantifiable cost for security would also extinguish some bad ideas; perhaps by the bean counters.




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