@noodles
The paradigm of the owner being the attacker that must be defended against, and the device and its vendor being victims, should never have been allowed to take hold. Now that thinking is ubiquitous and will be incredibly difficult to replace.
We pay for phones, tablets, televisions, set top boxes, laptops, etc., but the vendors consider them to be _their_ devices, to control as they please, and they consider that we, the unwashed masses, should consider ourselves lucky for that.
@brouhaha @noodles I hate this so much. And sometimes its not even the vendor being protected. I bought an Arris DOCSIS modem for my internet access. When I bought it there was a webserver running on it with status info I could use to diagnose interruptions in service. Not long after I installed it though the ISP disabled that feature - on *MY* modem, without asking or even telling me.
