1029
Undocumented Commands Found In Bluetooth Chip Manufactured in China Used By a Billion Devices.
(www.tarlogic.com)
Source Link Privacy.
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.
How so?
You can edit post titles as well as content (even images!) on Lemmy.
Idk maybe specify that it was determined to not be a backdoor. Right now it reads as anti-china fear mongering.
Thank you, I keep getting down voted because I said the same, but obviously other get it. Appreciate you and the sanity check!
Could be propaganda as well - why not scare the monkeys with the bad Chinese? Without ESPs the market is so much easier to control.
Note:I use both the ES8266ex and different ESP32s in my projects.