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Read that article couple years ago, but still I just have to look at the quality of all the electric devices around me... It's not all bridges and hospitals. Heck, even my electric toothbrush from Philipps can't make it through a full year without failing (planned obdolesence or not).

Security aspects are typically even worse in non-software development fields. Just look how awfully unprotected things like babyphones, elevators, cars etc. always were and are.

Only that hardware hacking is usually riskier and less convenient (and often not very rewarding).

But yeah, of course... The threshold to get started with software is lower.