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Re:IKEA ditches Zigbee for Thread going all in on Matter sma... by markhahn on Wednesday July 09, 2025 @02:06PM (#44513112)
where "security" here means "anything not explicitly sanctioned by the vendor is prohibited"?
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Re:IKEA ditches Zigbee for Thread going all in on Matter sma... by jekwoooooe on Wednesday July 09, 2025 @04:58PM (#44514683)
No it means signed firmware and verified boot…
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Re:IKEA ditches Zigbee for Thread going all in on Matter sma... by rcxdude on Thursday July 10, 2025 @05:05AM (#44518917)
That's pretty far from the main issue with iot security, and a heck of a lot of the issue with IoT in general, that the hardware gets vendor locked to a vendor that stops supporting the software (and wasn't very good at writing it in the first place)
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