Having flashbacks to the 'bad old days' of similar things happening to Windows machines (PCs, ATMs, etc). Microsoft, the gigantic, near-monopoly company in the space with a jillion very smart people working for it, struggled with such issues for many years (though eventually reined it in).<p>This time, though, I don't see a tenable path to actually fix this. The IoT industry is terribly, terribly fragmented. Few business models incentivize providing ongoing maintenance once they've sold you their gizmo. Few consumers have the ability to detect that this is happening.<p>I suspect that security and compatibility issues will cripple a large chunk of the IoT industry, with bigger players slowly picking off the profitable/useful chunks with niche products customers will think of as 'safe' (read: Amazon/Google's many IoT products).<p>In the mean time, I'll continue avoiding smart/IoT devices in my house. The risks seem to far, far, outweigh the rewards.