For the audience watching in 2015, the message was terrifyingly clear: The "Internet of Things" was not a convenience feature; it was a blast radius. While the car hack grabbed the headlines, a silent killer was unveiled at the same conference. Researchers from Zimperium (Joshua Drake) presented "Stagefright: Scary Code in the Heart of Android."
We learned that an entertainment system could wreck a car. We learned that a text message could own your phone. And we learned that the only thing standing between chaos and order is the quality of the firmware update pipeline. blackhat.2015
As you look through the archives of the 2015 talks, ask yourself: Have we actually fixed these problems? For most of the IoT devices rolling off assembly lines today, the answer is sadly, "Not really." For the audience watching in 2015, the message