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Re:FCC Proposes Voluntary Security Labels for IoT Most Compa... by giantg2 on Friday September 08, 2023 @10:17AM (#37433823)
"Yet most IoT manufacturers never thought of any of them."

It's possible they did think of these and just didn't do them for various reasons. Like it wasn't worth the cost (not necessarily due to changing the setting, but more from a support side), or they might have an incentive to leave it unsecured (Chinese tech), or something else.

The sad part is, the people making the decisions don't have imposter syndrome because they're making money with a success product and any shortcomings must be from the people under them.

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Re:FCC Proposes Voluntary Security Labels for IoT Most Compa... by sumtechguy on Friday September 08, 2023 @10:26AM (#37433925)
Hey boss lets secure this system. We need to do these 10 things.

Sure thing... How long will it take and will it get in the way of these 4 features we promised to the customer that they wanted last week?

Probably like about a month of work.

Well add it to the backlog and we will get to it eventually.

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