Whoops, sorry! Not only is the Internet of Things a total shit show when it comes to security and privacy, you also don‘t really own the things you buy, creating a universe of new possibilities when it comes to dysfunction, fraud, and misleading advertising promises. There are plenty of reasons why this incompetence is coming home to roost, though the simplest is that many companies were just too cheap and lazy to invest in quality kits, research and technology, and most IOT „evangelists“ were too focused on self-promotion to much care about the fact that they were selling us an industrial-grade disaster.