News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on ESP32/ESP8266 Wi-Fi Attacks. Parent comment

Re:ESP32/ESP8266 Wi-Fi Attacks by ClumsyPilot on Tuesday September 03, 2019 @06:23PM (#20871868)
Why do you call it first mover advantage when there were wifi MCUs before it?
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:ESP32/ESP8266 Wi-Fi Attacks by baybal2 on Tuesday September 03, 2019 @06:56PM (#20872135)
What was before were not MCUs as such, but a zoo of spi wifi + mcu "solutions" from rentier companies like broadcom.

Technically, and conceptually they were hopelessly behind an integrated WiFi MCU.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:ESP32/ESP8266 Wi-Fi Attacks by emilfihlman on Tuesday September 03, 2019 @07:53PM (#20872600)
You are wrong. There were many Wifi MCU solutions available before.

Espressif did not innovate in the technology space but in pricing and having enough documentation available that hackers could piece together an open source toolchain and libs for the chip.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:ESP32/ESP8266 Wi-Fi Attacks by emilfihlman on Tuesday September 03, 2019 @07:52PM (#20872588)
He's just wrong/in denial about it. Wifi MCUs existed just fine before ESP as you say, they just weren't affordable.
[ Parent | on HN ]