It increasingly looks like some people may have damaged their reputation for no apparent reason.
But it's important to ask, why would anyone do something like that? Who stands to win? What are their motives, aside from taking a reputational hit which doesn't appear to have been evaluated as a major downside? Who are we helping when we raise a false alarm?
https://hackaday.com/2025/03/10/the-esp32-bluetooth-backdoor-that-wasnt/
#esp32
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