Globalisation , manufacturing and ignorance could ruin the world for everyone according to Josh Lee and Echo Huang Yinyin . As manufacturing supply chains have grown more fragmented globally , and electronics products have become commodities , security and safety standards have not been able to catch up . As airplanes , hospitals and cars use internet - connected devices , people ’s lives are being put at risk . But this is unlikely to change soon : consumers buy cameras for special features like waterproofing and sharp image resolution , not whether they are secure , while manufacturers spend as little money as possible on security so as to have as much margin as possible . Also , there are no government regulators to oversee the security of IoT devices .
Globalisation, manufacturing and ignorance could ruin the internet for everyone according to Josh Horowitz and Echo Huang Yinyin. As manufacturing supply chains have grown more fragmented globally, and electronics products have become commodities, security and safety standards have not been able to catch up. As airplanes, hospitals and cars add internet-connected devices, people’s lives are being put at risk. But this is unlikely to change soon: consumers buy cameras for special features like waterproofing and sharp image resolution, not whether they are secure, while manufacturers spend as little money as possible on security so as to make as much margin as possible. Also, there are no government regulators to oversee the security of IoT devices.