[saurik]

I'm sure this will soon be solved using the hack of accessing shared Wi-Fi fabrics that some ISPs now offer (as in, the thing where the router will offer a generic network such as CoxWiFi, and allow random people to pay to use your WiFi; even if you don't have it, maybe your neighbor does)... and even then, new IoT longer-range WiFi services can act as a backstop.

[J_Shelby_J]

Or inexpensive cellular modems.

Someone in the future will make decent money converting smart tvs to dumb tvs.

[trod123]

Its already happening with Amazon Sidewalk and LoRa bands.

Some of the larger ISPs are also piping cell phone communications to VOIP at the edge using built-in features in the modems, and these are hopelessly insecure by regulatory action.

Take a look at the Cypher-Con talk on cable modems. Pretty damning. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hk2DsCWGXs)