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And DLink will continue to try to save money by releasing products without following proper security procedures because you will keep buying them because they are cheap.

It's tough for security to affect purchasing decisions because it's difficult to measure. I can measure horsepower, megapixels, gigabytes, milliamp-hours, etc. so it's easy to make purchasing decisions based on which of those things are important to me.

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I think what you're suggesting is that enough bricked devices will cause consumers to demand security - maybe even some measurable metric, like a certification of external audit - as part of the standard product search.

But I don't think bricking a device necessarily ties into security in people's minds. If they permanently modified it to always show HACKED_BCUZ_DLINK_SUX whenever I try to load the camera feed, sure - but a bricked camera is just a failure. I don't even know if it got hacked, or if a capacitor blew, or if a rodent chewed through something crucial.

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