Yes, you are out of touch with what has happened with embedded. Companies love internet connected things, especially big industrial things. It’s absolutely ter

Yes, you are out of touch with what has happened with embedded. Companies love internet connected things, especially big industrial things. It’s absolutely terrible for security but remote visibility into how your 100 ton haul truck is operating via some cloud API is what people like and keep buying. No air gap, just hooked up to a cell phone network with maybe a VPN if you’re lucky. Either way, the kernel is handling packets directly from the Internet and keeping the kernel up to date is critical.