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I’m obviously not an EE — but I was stunned to learn that consumer power drills use a reasonably powerful ARM microprocessor to activate the coils and drive the drill motor.
Stuff like this makes me despair. Even the simplest motorized devices are now reliant on computers in fundamental ways, at the same time they’re increasingly being connected to networks.
Right now we’re relying on friction from software diversity to keep our society functioning. But in practice, the first people to get really serious about automatic vulnerability finding are going to own the equivalent of a nuclear arsenal.
