In another comment[0] I described how I keep my cameras away from the internet. Someone like Google could easily build something into their routers and firewall them off as they're added to the network. The firewall could allow them to talk to the appropriate cloud service, and nothing else, in order to better secure them without the user even knowing it's happening.
This doesn't solve all of the IoT problems, but it does help some for the one described in the article.
In another comment[0] I described how I keep my cameras away from the internet. Someone like Google could easily build something into their routers and firewall them off as they're added to the network. The firewall could allow them to talk to the appropriate cloud service, and nothing else, in order to better secure them without the user even knowing it's happening.
This doesn't solve all of the IoT problems, but it does help some for the one described in the article.
[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12685381