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Economically vendors have little to no incentive to fix this mess either, so it will haunt us for some time to come. Introducing a slew of devices that all need security updates into each household that falls for them doesn't seem all that clever.

A light bulb that can change its brightness and colour shouldn't be smart; it should be dumb as a brick and expose only those parameters that can sensibly and safely be set by a user — kind of like a normal light bulb does.

"IoT ecosystem will be one of the biggest holes in cyber security and a heaven for black-hat hackers."

I think you meant "is" here.

Haha, I was in dilemma. But since most people are not aware of it, I chose the future tense. But you are right, it is already.

1. shit brick easily.

2. vendors mix feature changes/removals and security updates.

3, better the devil you know...