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user-inactivated  ·  3229 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Internet of Things security is so bad, there’s a search engine for sleeping kids

    I imagine that use of IoT in corporate or industrial setting might be better. My company's head of technology frequently talks about IoT with massive enthusiasm and optimism, but that just scares me.

Within the last 12 months, I've been paid to fix Windows 95 machines. It seems to me that the people making the tech are decoupled from the actual people who use the stuff and the realities of budgets.





ahw  ·  3229 days ago  ·  link  ·  

That doesn't surprise me. It seems there's no upper limit for scary stories about people running insecure software. Maybe they might be more motivated when people keep turning their lightbulbs on and off.