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Re:Undocumented backdoor found in Bluetooth chip used by a b... by asdfologist on Saturday March 08, 2025 @11:51AM (#43301525)
Someone on Reddit suspected this 3 years ago.

https://www.reddit.com/r/embedded/comments/wopjw8/how_sure_a...

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Re:Undocumented backdoor found in Bluetooth chip used by a b... by MarkMarine on Saturday March 08, 2025 @11:54AM (#43301558)
Gotta say I expected this to be the wifi system. Most of the code on the ESP-32 is given as source, but the wifi driver is not.

https://github.com/esp32-open-mac/esp32-open-mac

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Re:Undocumented backdoor found in Bluetooth chip used by a b... by Eduard on Saturday March 08, 2025 @04:20PM (#43303646)
the lower layers of both Wifi and Bluetooth on ESP32 family devices are closed as of this writing.
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Re:Undocumented backdoor found in Bluetooth chip used by a b... by Aurornis on Saturday March 08, 2025 @12:14PM (#43301704)
That doesn't match the article at all.
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Re:Undocumented backdoor found in Bluetooth chip used by a b... by jillyboel on Saturday March 08, 2025 @01:35PM (#43302315)
Anyone who has thought critically for a few seconds has suspected this. The question is whether you're right and if you can prove that.
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