Imagine if your neighborhood had a million autonomous door-opening drones randomly flying around identifying doors and entering them. It wouldn't take long for everyone to lock their doors.
You can not defend everything. At some point you have to realize the world works because not every exploitable thing is exploited and we live in a civil society (most of us anyway).
I get it, the internet makes things different. But your analogy doesn't work You can not build a building that can not be destroyed.
All the unsupported iot stuff will be obliterated by malicious bots, but the next generation of iot will be both more robust and less directly exposed to the internet. Like how Matter devices sit behind a hub rather than directly connecting to the internet.
Pretty interesting example, because I'd like to live in a society where I don't have to lock my doors, because it's safe and I trust people around me. Releasing drone police randomly opening doors in the name of security sounds like a strict downgrade, not "a good thing because people will learn".
and don’t live in a city.
Of course, as you said, in a city I will never feel safe enough to leave a door unlocked when leaving my apartment - big cities are big, and even 0.1% of bad apples may spoil things for everyone. But wanting a safer and more high-trust society sounds like a good thing, right? How would disconnecting from the internet help me.
while still living in the real world.
I don’t really “hope and dream” for stuff like feeling safe.
Especially when it can be had for so much less than the not-feeling-safe options.
(and yes, people randomly taking my things makes me feel unsafe.)
Disconnecting from the Internet makes it harder for people to break into your hardware.
> Releasing drone police randomly opening doors in the name of security sounds like a strict downgrade
This is happening on the Internet hourly, and it’s not the police. Well, sometimes. But mostly not.