Combustible Hoverboards to Hackable Cameras – its the Supply Chain, Stupid | Quartz

The article argues that the massive Mirai IoT botnet DDoS attacks share a common root cause with other consumer-safety failures—fragile, opaque global supply chains and low-cost components (such as Xiongmai modules) that omit security features. Because device manufacturing and component sourcing are fragmented, vulnerable devices are widespread and hard for consumers or vendors to fully identify and remediate, limiting the effectiveness of recalls and increasing systemic risk to internet infrastructure.