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Tarlogic Security has detected a backdoor in the ESP32, a microcontroller that enables WiFi and Bluetooth connection and is present in millions of mass-market IoT devices. Exploitation of this backdoor would allow hostile actors to conduct impersonation attacks and permanently infect sensitive devices such as mobile phones, computers, smart locks or medical equipment by bypassing code audit controls.
Update: The ESP32 “backdoor” that wasn’t.
I agree we shouldn’t be racist against Chinese people, but you’re ignorant. From wikipedia: ESP32 is created and developed by Espressif Systems, a Chinese company based in Shanghai, and is manufactured by TSMC using their 40 nm process.It is a successor to the ESP8266 microcontroller.
So it’s designed/developed in China and manufactured in Taiwan; not China.
Dog whistling.
This has nothing to do with the chip or who makes it.
It’s the way it’s written.
You missed the point.
Gold medal for your performance in mental gymnastics.