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Millions of Smart TVs, Phones and Routers At Risk From Old Vulnerability (trendmicro.com)
itwbennett writes: Adding fuel to the growing concern over how manufacturers of devices such as routers and smart TVs deal with security vulnerabilities that emerge in their products, Trend Micro found that a 3-year-old vulnerability in a software component used in millions of smart TVs, routers and phones still hasn't been patched by many vendors. Although a patch was issued for the component in December 2012, Trend Micro found 547 apps that use an older unpatched version of it, wrote Veo Zhang, a mobile threats analyst on the Trend Micro blog. 'These are very popular apps that put millions of users in danger; aside from mobile devices, routers, and smart TVs are all at risk as well,' he wrote.
I agree with your sentiment, but an old saying comes to mind. Something about not having to outrun a bear if you can outrun your buddy. You don't have to have perfect security. Just better security than the guy one IP address over.