Re:FCC Proposes Voluntary Security Labels for IoT Most Compa...
by AnthonyMouse on Friday September 08, 2023 @01:44PM
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> A Zigbee or Z-Wave based outlet would be better, but that really just moves all of that scope creep from the individual device to the hub.
This is actually fine as long as the hub is open source software running on a general purpose computer, because then you're not reliant on the hardware vendor to support it.
The fundamental problem is that the hardware vendors (1) don't provide what's necessary for anyone but themselves to support the hardware, and then (2) don't adequately support it themselves.
This is actually fine as long as the hub is open source software running on a general purpose computer, because then you're not reliant on the hardware vendor to support it.
The fundamental problem is that the hardware vendors (1) don't provide what's necessary for anyone but themselves to support the hardware, and then (2) don't adequately support it themselves.
Far better to address (1) than (2).