Almost all tech targeted at non-technically inclined audiences is designed to take advantage of them and charge them for superfluous garbage, It's a great business model. See Apple.
There's that, yes. But I know worse : tech aimed at security is - and this is pretty ironic - often anything but secure.
The first time I had to troubleshoot something involving a security camera, it turned out that the camera had no security plan involved. It just dumped its info on a publicly available website. It had been a while since I've seen a'http' website (so without end - to - end security), but ey... The security camera had literally worse security itself than a website on dog food (to name a random example).
But this wasn't even the main problem. This was the time browsers actively started ditching flash because the safety issues simply didn't measure up to the potential gains. And sure enough : the site containing the raw video material used a format I couldn't get to play with any sort of video player but relied on a self built player using flash. This was before flash got completely banned so I got it to work, but I strongly adviced the store managers to get "something secure".
And don't get me started on G4S. I work in an airport, and those clowns are responsible for handling our cash throughput. Their ict infrastructure is a disaster. Ours isn't much better, I've got to admit, but that doesn't excuse them in any way.
