How your toaster or washing machine or new car will stay on top of emerging security concerns years after initial production is a very real concern, one that Kocher, a respected cryptographer, has given some thought.

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It wants to be the brain in your washing machine, your microwave and your car, not to mention the giant server farms dotted around the planet that will power cloud computing as more of our day-to-day work gets stored online.

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