The solution is for white hat hackers to hack these cameras for the sole purpose of disabling them. People keep saying the cameras can't be updated or patched to fix the DDoS vulnerability, so they should be hacked to simply make them inoperable. If a device is insecure, it doesn't deserve to be allowed on the public network.
An interesting confirmation of this theory is explained in the recent Washington Post article entitled, "What killed BlackBerry? Employees started buying their own devices." That article basically explains how the smartphone market shifted from a business market to a consumer market, where consumers wanted the superiority of non-blackberry devices. While not dealing with the modularity issue, the article supports the different values in those two market perspectives (they're really not segments). http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2013/09/20...
This might be the most illogical and unsupported assertion, ever: "Given that the human face recognition performed by the check-in agents did not keep the hijackers out, there is no reason to think that computer face recognition would help."