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

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.

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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.

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