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Presumably a state-level actor could not only figure out how to disable these devices, but actually create patches for the vulnerabilities and force-distribute those patches. They would have access to test hardware and could even demand confidential documentation from the manufacturers to facilitate this.


...and include whatever they want into those patches. And they'll want.


Though that does remove a lot of the incentive for the IoT company to change anything.


This risks bricking the devices.




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