Use GPG and send you message via Facebook and let them scan the hell out of your messages. Interesting concept :) Make a Facebook profile, encrypt all content, provide your public key. Facebook would be an unreadable pile of garbled content with zero value for advertisers. Anyone care to write a browser plugin?

These devices are 'old', end of life, no longer supported and most non tech users won't ever know. And the non tech enduser will (once again) see personal or financial information compromised, or will participate in yet another botnet. It's public now, but nobody knows how much this has been exploited as zero day. Replace router/firmware with 'car' and we would see class action lawsuits as never before. I think that more strict regulation is needed or legislative work that hold companies accountable for issues as these, it's just too easy, make crap, write shitty software, sell it, don't look back.

EMV solves some issues but is vulnerable to a MITM attack, documentation etc has been online for about 2 years if I'm not mistaking and no fix or whatever in sight. It's all about the money, if the amount of fraud (covered by insurance) and costs is lower then an EMV rollout (or fix for EMV), banks won't move. It's 'included' in the business model. Same story for retailers, most POS systems are a joke when it comes to security, flat text transactions, old hardware (XP or below) with disabled updates, no antivirus, no password complexity, no effort whatsover to protect whatever. Just disable everything for the sake of a stable POS system. They simply don't care, they only will when there are legal repercussions and there aren't.

The internet of things is about the last thing I'm interested in as of Snowden's revelations. Coca-Cola probably just wants to brand, network capable devices with an own prefix.