What is he thinking? Why profit of course. The problem is there's more and more of these types of marketing types and companies. In the next few years it'll probably be pretty hard to find anything that's not IoT crap.
Not only bad security, more complexity and general shit for brains in the software, etc.... there's the bandwidth with all them phoning home and telling the manufacturer everything the product knows about you. We pay for their data collection and their fuck-ups not only with the additional cost of the product but for the bandwidth and any headaches that occur due to the general stupidity of those making and selling them.
I think I need an adult beverage and a lie down... if the fridge will let me have one and the couch won't object to my presence.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
