An ESP32 is a powerful thing, but it is also a microcontroller.
They are programmable as soon as you have physical access. They are NOT like whole PC's that you can lock up with passwords etc.
More like a gun that you can fire as soon as you have physical access.
I wonder where the expectation has come from? People seem to think that it should be different than it is.
I am very sure that it is true.
Not only such primitve things as a kill switch - because nobody can make any profit directly from deactivating a device - but also lots of dependencies from the manufacturers and from the Usa, for the supply of ammunition, materials, spare parts etc. The same idea that we know as "vendor lock-in" in lots of consumer products.
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He pardoned them because they worked for him. For him personally.
You can't do that if HE doesn't want you to do that.
Then you would be dead.
Haven't they said that about magnetic tape as well?
Some 30 years ago?
Isn't magnetic tape still around? Isn't even IBM one of the major vendors?
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although he’s bi, he’d only talk about hot men (especially fictional)
He's trolling you. He's making fun of you.
O.m.g. what a very bad guy.
I am sure he is talking about you to his other friends, and it is not exactly praise then.
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Monte Carlo, during the F1 championchip race, at that one Hotel there with the best view.
If you want a recurring business model people have to have confidence you will keep your end of the bargain
I don't think so.
You rather need confidence you will always stay so much more powerful than the "other side" that you will always be able to milk them. And maybe think about preparing your retirement in time.
statutes that protect [...] people trying to cooperate with law enforcement,
I don't know exactly about France, but such a concept is rare in Europe in general (except England), and even more so when it comes to possession of such materials.
In Germany, I know the tolerance is absolutely ZERO, and the excuses too. You can carry the material to the police to deliver it, and with that you have proven that you were in possession one second before (it is very different with illegal weapons btw.). Private investigators or journalists have tried to do reports about the topic, seriously and neutrally without any doubt, but got punished for possession then.
Of course they would test against all imaginable vulnerabilities. It is a weapon after all.
And of course they would make all the needed software tests in a safe environment where the switch doesn't really destroy things.
As I said, no direct profit from the kill switch. But the possibility of indirect profit: for every destroyed weapon, you cannot sell spare parts anymore, but then there is the potential to sell a new weapon later.