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An audit of the security of IoT mobile applications available on official stores has found that tech to safeguard the world of connected things remains outstandingly mediocre. Pradeo Security put a representative sample of 100 iOS and Android applications developed to manage connected objects (heaters, lights, door-locks, baby …

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  1. wolfetone Silver badge

    In other news, water continues to be wet.

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    1. ecofeco Silver badge
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      Shocked I tell you. Shocked.

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    2. Brian Miller
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      IoT covers many things. What comes to mind are "smart" guns. The imagination runs rampant with software cockups and high velocity projectiles.

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  2. Zog_but_not_the_first
    FAIL

    IoT?

    IoS please.

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  3. Charles 9

    So, in other news, how do we stop gullible people from buying all this up (and taking the rest of us with them)?

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    1. Gene Cash Silver badge
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      It's like Facebook & backups. Nobody gives a shit until someone gets severely and publicly burned.

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    2. ecofeco Silver badge
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      We can't. That's how the consumer economy works. Crap tat for cheap makes the world go 'round.

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  4. Steve Aubrey
    Joke

    Acronym

    This isn't original, but . . .

    In IoT, the "S" stands for Security

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    1. Pascal Monett Silver badge
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      That is, unfortunately, not a joke. It's the truth.

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  5. Anonymous Coward
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    Software still riddled with security holes

    Security holes still riddled with Software.

    FTFY

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  6. Rich 10

    and in still other news, dog wets fire hydrant, sun rises in the east and oxygen is a by-product of photosynthesis

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  7. Adrian 4

    In other news

    .. microsoft patched a bunch more holes leaving the world's favourite operating system (allegedly) with a few less than it had before. And doubtless all the other vendors did the same.

    Stop going on about IoT holes ffs. We know. Software is crap. Vendors are cheap. Nothing's going to change soon.

    Newsworthy would be '<thing> beats hackcon contest', not 'something else is broken'.

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      Re: In other news

      The problem with your post is, if we "Stop going on about IoT holes" then this part becomes incorrect: "Nothing's going to change soon." - it will need to be amended to "Nothing's going to change ever.".

      We know (most modern) software is crap, the unwashed masses are still figuring that out. It stings them all the more when some spotty geek gets to say "I told you so" pointing to years of evidence backing them up.

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  8. GnuTzu

    And, The Children

    Oh, we'll see such an outcry when the stuff made for children results in something truly too horrible to describe--even on El Reg.

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  9. Anonymous Coward
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    Personality test

    Given these statistics, does anyone really believe that Kogan/CA's little app was the only one that abused user data?

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