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Maybe we can find out for sure through the magic of the fediverse…
@antoniovazquezblanco@mastodon.social Is the “backdoor” mentioned in https://www.tarlogic.com/news/backdoor-esp32-chip-infect-ot-devices/ about what you shared in your RootedCON talk? If so, how worried should people using devices containing ESP32s be?
None. People that have physical access to you device can write malicious firmware. Which they can already do with physical access
It’s an overblown nothing-burger. Calling it a backdoor is a security researcher juicing up some minor finding