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I'm not sure I'm comfortable with the idea of my grandmother being held responsible for the botnet that her coffee maker is a node of.



Which is insecure because the creator of the coffee maker didn't consider security to be a necessary feature. The true liability lies with the person that made that decision and should not be transferable.


If we transfer the liability to the consumer, he _will_ consider this a necessary feature. And ask for it. It takes one serious conviction of a consumer and the company selling him crap will go out of business.




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