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Re:IoT Growing Faster Than the Ability to Defend It by TuringNYC on Sunday October 30, 2016 @06:50PM (#12832969)
Many manufacturers incur liability for their products' defects. How do IoT manufacturers get away without incurring such liability? Is it because the EULAs users sign are airtight? Is it because they are overseas companies? Is it because they are small and would just close up shop if they got sued? Is each incident so tiny that it does not make sense to sue (what about class-actions or ultimate-victim-initiated actions?)

Not that I'm proposing litigation as a solution here, but I don't understand what makes IoT manufacturers so different.

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Re:IoT Growing Faster Than the Ability to Defend It by user5994461 on Sunday October 30, 2016 @07:14PM (#12833089)
They are no different. It's just that noone sued yet.

Wait for an attack to Brick the vulnerable IoT devices and then the class actions will begin :D

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