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End of line: supporting IoT in the home

System updates and issues surrounding expiring certificates will pose problems for manufacturers and headaches for consumers. Manufacturers need to keep making money by building in some form of limited shelf life into a device, in a way which makes you continually fork over some cash above and beyond the original purchasebecause youre now onto the next one, and the one after thatand the latest model does a handful of new things, so you’d better buy that too. Devices with IoT tech in them, even more so, are usually pretty expensive. Device owners are paying a premium for functionality you may not use that often.”]

Source: https://blog.malwarebytes.com/cybercrime/2020/06/end-of-line-supporting-iot-in-the-home/

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