I stand corrected. This will teach Espressif to make their blobs so accessible 
and transparent. 😅
Pete

Mar 9, 2025 12:48:46 PM jonathan hunsberger <[email protected]>:

> Looks like the company did originally call it a backdoor, but have since 
> re-termed as a "hidden feature".  That youtube showed a screenshot of this 
> page https://www.tarlogic.com/news/backdoor-esp32-chip-infect-ot-devices/ 
> where the title said backdoor.  The addendum at the bottom says "could 
> facilitate supply chain attacks, the concealment of backdoors in the chipset, 
> or the execution of more sophisticated attacks" but i think that guy on 
> YouTube is right - this is going to be a lot of pain for a lot of tech teams 
> of esp32-based products to do damage-control and education with their 
> management and customers.
> 
> On Sun, Mar 9, 2025 at 11:30 AM Pete Soper via TriEmbed 
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Presumably this is a debunk. If not I can point to something thorough. TL;DR 
>> they mistook an unpublished SPI for a back door, "they being the click 
>> jockeys: the actual work never uses the term!
>> Pete
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