To paraphrase the late rapper Biggie Smalls, it seems as if the technology world is plunging into a great unknown void, where cyber security issues, hacker invasions and device problems have become an everyday event. Apparently a major computer chip manufacturer has announced that there has been a known security problem with microprocessors they have made over the past 10 years (while one of their C-level people sold millions of dollars of stock before the announcement). So a vast majority of smartphones, laptops and desktop PCs are potentially hackable due to this manufacturing error, which has been known internally in the company for years.
As consumers and installers we inherently trust the major vendors of products to produce quality hardware and software, and we assume those devices have been thoroughly tested for potential threats.