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by chaostheory 4388 days ago
On an interesting note, during the last CES Belkin announced that Wemo is going to integrate with appliances such as slow cookers and humidifiers. This is a disaster waiting to happen.
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Welcome to Watch Dogs, where everything is online, even your grenades, whether it makes sense or not.
In all fairness to Belkin, they did correct their mistake.

But still, Belkin is a company that has sold technology products for a while now, and even they couldn't get it right.

The problem with Belkin is that they have a history of selling garbage in nice packaging with decent industrial design. Unless something changes drastically in the company's culture, I doubt their product quality will really improve.
Good point, one of the first routers I got was a belkin, and I learned quickly that they aren't reliable.