"Reporter commissions a (successful) penetration test (of cheap Chinese hardware)" isn't quite as catchy I guess
replyJournalists have no shame when it comes to making clickbait headlines. Feel like an idiot for falling for it.
replyDad was a real newspaper journalist pre-internet and he used to bemoan the headlines the copy editors would come up with.
replyThat’s typically how you show that something is vulnerable before it becomes a real problem.
replyI mean, criticize the headline if you want, but this is pretty standard reporting for this kind of thing. Recent stories on vulnerabilities in networked car systems were handled using the same approach. (It finally got attention, too, even though security researchers had been pointing out the same issues for years.)