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by dublinben 3533 days ago
The manufacturers of these devices are selling faulty products. If their products are dangerously insecure, they should face repercussions.
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The manufacturer might be in another country or bankrupt. You should go after the user and then he might go after the manufacturer or his insurance if he wants.

But on more realistic terms, my hope is that if this gets really bad, then a consortium of huge internet firms can start blacklisting bad IPs. If John-Random-Guy can't connect to google/facebook/akamai/etc then for sure he'll at least unplug the device