Reply to post: Broken updates

California cracks down on Internet of Crap passwords with new law to stop the botnets

Whitter
Meh

Broken updates

Who's going to take the chance that their house's power system goes down after a borked security patch to the "smart meter"? Could Joe-punter rectify the situation if it did happen? In general, no. How big are the test teams working on IoT updates? Ermm.. about as big as the team making them; likely zero.

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