I presume most on here are giving the current and prior generations of 'internet of things' a fairly wide berth.

Articles and events such as these suggest that the primary defense would be to buy only expensive (high enough profit margins to fund ongoing updates) and properly supported hardware (and the embedded software within). This would seem to exclude the vast bulk of the marketplace offerings.

Are there hardening methods that can allow these IoT things (aside from dislike of the acronym) to be 'effectively secure' despite being genetically vulnerable? Otherwise, seems like the best defense is to not install these things, at all.

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/we-need-to-save-the-internet-from-the-internet-of-things

http://motherboard.vice.com/tag/Internet+of+Shit


Edited by K447 (07/10/2016 23:59)