Re:FCC Proposes Voluntary Security Labels for IoT Most Compa...
by ilyt on Friday September 08, 2023 @11:35AM
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The configuration is a problem here.
You can do exactly what you propose, right now, with stuff like ESPhome. You pre-bake what device does and which WiFi network it uses into image, burn it in, and you're done.
But that's for "us"
Normal user needs a way to get the box to configure to his needs, and do it easily. So suddenly you can "log" onto device and edit its config, and you need to find a way to make sure only legit user does it etc.
And now it is a big blob of code and you DONT, UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCE want to have big blob of code that's hard to update in the wild.
You can do exactly what you propose, right now, with stuff like ESPhome. You pre-bake what device does and which WiFi network it uses into image, burn it in, and you're done.
But that's for "us"
Normal user needs a way to get the box to configure to his needs, and do it easily. So suddenly you can "log" onto device and edit its config, and you need to find a way to make sure only legit user does it etc.
And now it is a big blob of code and you DONT, UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCE want to have big blob of code that's hard to update in the wild.