Appliance makers can’t code, it’s too far from their field of expertise.

Appliance makers can’t code, it’s too far from their field of expertise. They simply can’t do it so why do we expect industry best (or even good) practice from them? Small example: the electronics in my major brand oven doesn’t even debounce its inputs. Of course Osram have never heard of sanitising it’s input data or cross-site scripting attacks. Of course you next car can have its engine wide open and easily hijacked by hackers.

Software writing requires a software culture and appliance hardware makers don’t have that culture. Consequently their software engineers (assuming they employ any at all) are at the bottom of the pile.

Originally shared by mathew murphy

Network vulnerability in Osram lightbulbs can be used to gain access to your home network.