There are other shops beside Walmart, aren’t there?

No need to put a stupid teenager in prison for a longer time for being stupid, but: A day or two behind bars on top of the fine might have had a better educational effect.

Thoughts and prayers, anyone?

So primarily a server administration failure, inviting anyone to take them down.

Best politicians money can buy!

Tell someone is American without mentioning American.

It was never up in this house.

Good. Sadly it was fixed.

The Power 10 is not RISC-V. It is a RISC processor, namely of the Power ISA architecture, based on the good old PowerPC 601.

I have not dealt with those chips for about 30 years, though.

I’ll wait and see when someone finally produces a RISC-V chip that can keep up with the big boys. But they can’t even compete with ARM at the moment, so I am not holding my breath.

I do care and feel sorry for the kids, but I cannot change their parents.

Wrong. Read the analysis. It is a BT vulnerability. One can probably design a cheap attack system that just sends a erase flash command to any BT device in reach, instantly bricking every BT enabled ESP32 device.

It is not easy to determine how fixable this is. IIRC, the ESP32 has the wireless stack hidden from user space, and I am not sure if it is a blob included during link time, or if it is stored in a ROM of the chip. I do have the chips and the development enviroment in my studio, but (luckily) I decided to use a different chip for my project.

But I know there is a load of systems using either the ESP32 as their main processor, or as an auxiliary processor to add WiFi or BT capabilities, so this really is a big oh shit moment.

Just wait until a jester creates a software that sends an erase flash backdoor command to any BT device it sees.

While I have a few ESP32 in my collection, I am now happy that I chose a different platform for my project.

I wonder what people will say in Nürnberg next week at Embedded World.

Sorry for the kids, but I have simply given up to care about the members of this suicide cult.

Nobody ever claimed that Republicans were smart enough to spot the difference.

Yes, but at that point, they had not even tried that. Here and now, millions over millions have been wasted and no tangible advance has been made.

Learn physics, kid. Maybe learn math first.

Like fusion power, just 20-50 years away.