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I imagine that it can also get better once a company can gain competitive advantage by advertising that "our device is secure!" But I suppose a precondition for this is customer awareness of the issue, which probably requires some well publicized high impact/casualty incidents first? :/


> But I suppose a precondition for this is customer awareness of the issue, which probably requires some well publicized high impact/casualty incidents first? :/

I'd say it absolutely requires a high-impact case, something like downing of an airplane, or a cyberattack that sets half of the city in flames. Otherwise, any concern of people about security will quickly get papered over by marketing - as it always is.


Of course, anyone can say "our device is secure", and if the industry is left to its own devices to create a standard for being allowed to say that, they'll pick the cheapest standard possible. Then, so long as they can say "we were following the standards", and the standards company can say "we're updating the standard" every time, nobody cares.




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