Dear Every Product Marketing Team in the World:

when you try to convince me I need to be able to access my toaster from anywhere on the Internet, this is what I hear:

Hacker taps into baby monitor, shouts at sleeping infant

A family’s baby monitor is compromised by someone who uses it to look around the room and shout at people. And, btw, the manufacturer designed the device such that all logs are lost when powered down.

All software has bugs. If you are lucky, the manufacturer has a process to try to find and respond to those bugs as rapidly as possible. It can never be as rapidly as necessary, however. Choose wisely what you put on the network.

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