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It's fine to say we want everything as secure as possible. But what about the tradeoff between a system being easy to connect/use and making it so difficult to connect that hobbyist users can't get the device to work.

If you are doing mission critical or life-safety related work with $3 devices, you are doing it wrong. Spend a little more and use something else.

In my case, I am monitoring room temperatures in my house with several ESP8266 devices so I want easy-to-connect features. I don't care about security in this application.



Actually I think it's easier to make cheap, mass produced device secure because you have loads of eyes to check the code.


I wasn't arguing against open source. I agree with you on that subject.

But there is a point where you make a device so secure that it can be very difficult to connect with anything.




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