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Technical and commercial media sources are constantly discussing how design safety and security has not kept pace with quickly evolving technologies. Pundits are pointing to issues with everything from self-driving cars to new holiday toys that latch on to your home Wi-Fi and capture information from every device on your home network. They uniformly make it sound like all these new embedded technologies have emerged in the past five years or so.

As a career reliability and quality engineer going back several decades, I am here to throw some reality-based cold water on what seems to be a form of new urban, or rather technology, myth.

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