• NeoNachtwaechter@lemmy.world
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    1 day 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@lemmy.world
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      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.