[mercora]

While a common agreement on how this should be done would be the best solution, it should be enough to have at least some option to setup such tunnels through an API. Router manufactures could develop an App to make that setup easier then.

Although this wont be practical for any device that is not a phone or a (desktop) computer.

[ge0rg]

And then there would be malware running in your browser that uses the API to expose your IoT devices. There is precedent for that where Javascript in the browser was accessing your router's web interface (with default credentials) to change your DNS server.

[fragmede]

That's just another target among many in the broader class of XSS attacks, and there are protections that router manufacturers (and anyone else hosting a website) are able to build in to protect against it.

Unfortunately, this belies the meat of the issue with IoT. After you've bought the router, there's no reason for your router's manufacturer to keep updating the firmware and fix bugs that allow an XSS attack, and even if the manufacturer does upgrade the firmware, there's no no way for the manufacture to force the firmware to be updated on all of the devices that have been sold, hence installed devices with older firmware that's been exploited and is now part of the botnet used to attack Krebsonsecurity.com