Comment by cominous | Hacker News Reader

Comment by cominous | Hacker News Reader

Something that really presses my buttons is this mentality of lots of people to just jump on the complain-train and blame the world that certain technologies for beeing not "as good" as others. And even worse are the people using that to create cheap articles to generate clicks.

"Javasript is sooo broken.. the world is unfair", "Iot is sooo shit...", "Language X is soo bad.. thanks Obama", "Framework Y is soo 2016...".

Thousand people are trying to make a difference in the world and the ones just writing articles about "XY is shit" do mostly nothing. News about bad, bad "IoT", are so low hanging fruits to click-bait. There is almost never a constructive appraoch. Just complain and generate clicks.

Where are the leading ideas to make "IoT" better? Where is the differentiation, that open printers installed by stupid users are not a prove how "shit" IoT is?

You might also say the "internet is shit" because there is major dataleak happens every week.

... just my 2 cents...

Thing is that.. JS is usually broken, the world is usually unfair, IoT has proven itself to be usually shit and most frameworks are bad.

Xerox is not a small startup that just wants to make printing easier. Even if it was, at least some basic security practices should be considered.

I mean i'm here writing a dinky little website using SQL and golang (i am a newbie at bout) and I am sterilizing inputs to make sure that SQL injection can't happen. Meanwhile the United Nations(!!) website has been exploited by same. There's even a defcon(?) talk about how a firm was hired to asses the security of that UN website and when the guy sent them an email saying that it is vulnerable to SQL injection, they responded by threatening him to never do that (year later it wasn't fixed). Wish i could find that talk.. it was great. Then there is the Technicolor router (big company) that my cousin has, that i just googled to find it vulnerable to all kinds of things and just horrid in general. Then there is ...

Agree, it's a terrible headline. Especially when, IN the interview itself, the interviewee says "I think the media blows it out of proportion a bit. People are thinking their toasters and shit are getting rooted on a daily basis."

There are constructive comments right at the top of the article. And companies are selling devices that put their users at risk, so until we get regulation, articles like this are the how people get informed about the problem.

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