Indeed, lots of smart people have been saying that the Internet of Things vision is naive, counterproductive, and potentially dangerous. Some recent polls have indicated that most consumers at least have a sense that random cheap Internet-connected devices are problematic, so these sorts of stories are at least making an impact.<p>For better or worse, this trend is going to keep going until something truly egregious happens and either market forces or government regulation steps in. Hopefully we&#x27;ll see a pattern similar to that we&#x27;ve seen with desktop computers, where there&#x27;ll be some messy worms or viruses that infect enough people that the big players in the field start taking these threats seriously.