IoT will creep in
I think everyone would accept that having a device report its status is a useful thing to have and putting it on the internet makes sense so it becomes accessible from wherever it needs to be accessed. And if it can provide status it can detect when there's a problem can and alert people of that.
In itself that is no bad thing, and that is already widely implemented anyway. It is the unintended consequences, security and privacy risks, which are the other side of the coin. Increasing what is on-line and exposed, particularly putting it on the wider internet as opposed to LAN, using 'cloud' services rather than local servers.
There's a lot of hype for and a lot of knee-jerk reaction against IoT but, in truth, it's already there and will only keep growing.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
