• partial_accumen
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    317 hours ago

    It certainly opens up lost of “evil maid” attacks.

    • @NeoNachtwaechter
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      1016 hours ago

      An ESP32 is a powerful thing, but it is also a microcontroller.

      They are programmable as soon as you have physical access. They are NOT like whole PC’s that you can lock up with passwords etc.

      More like a gun that you can fire as soon as you have physical access.

      I wonder where the expectation has come from? People seem to think that it should be different than it is.

      • pelya
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        414 hours ago

        That’s because the article that started the whole argument tried very hard to present an expected behavior for embedded chips as a security hole.

    • JWBananas
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      116 hours ago

      Does it? The quoted passage is also in reference to a less commonly used configuration, in which it is basically used as a communications coprocessor.