Comment on The ESP32 "backdoor" that wasn't | Dark Mentor LLC
pelya@lemmy.world 4 weeks agoAnyway, having direct unprivileged R/W access to platform memory is indeed a security hole, no matter the vendor.
It is not. ESP32 is an embedded chip with less than one megabyte of RAM. It cannot run apps or load websites with any malicious code, it only runs the firmware that you flash on it, nothing else, and of course your firmware has full access to every chip feature. If your firmware has a security hole, it’s not the chip’s fault.
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Try reading the article next time.
pelya@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
There was no mention of over-the-air exploit, so eh.