welp, TL;DR from comments says its fear mongering at best, physical access required right?
this post was submitted on 08 Mar 2025
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Undocumented Commands Found In Bluetooth Chip Manufactured in China Used By a Billion Devices.
(www.tarlogic.com)
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Tarlogic Security has detected a backdoor in the ESP32, a microcontroller that enables WiFi and Bluetooth connection and is present in millions of mass-market IoT devices. Exploitation of this backdoor would allow hostile actors to conduct impersonation attacks and permanently infect sensitive devices such as mobile phones, computers, smart locks or medical equipment by bypassing code audit controls.
Update: The ESP32 "backdoor" that wasn't.
Is this some hardware flaw, or just something in their standard BT stack?
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This turned racist / xenophobic real quickly.
There have been several other posts about this without mentioning China at all, especially in the post itself.
No where in the article does it say "chinese", literally anywhere.
Check your racism.
Edited to remove where I stated it was manufactured. I did a quick search and found a couple mentions, but did not thoroughly check sourced. Apologies.
I actually wanted to keep the title short, but I think it would be better to edit the title to avoid any confusion to make it clear that it's manufactured in China, rather than saying it in the current way.
Edit: I edited the title to reflect the details better.
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I have a bunch of ESP32's that ... I can update and replace the firmware on, if i reset it the right way with a usb cable. the web site doesn't explain it any way how this is any worse than that...?
The website is also the guy trying to sell the solution so I'm just sceptical for now
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Jokes on them, I live in America when all that shit was already being done.
I read in another article that the identified 28 backdoor commands.