Yaaay!

Oh, that’s why xcancel was returning 502

Yeah, of course, it would be better in many ways if the firmware wasn’t closed.

And runs with an USB cable flashing other peoples ESPs to ruin everyone’s day

Open source stack will not prevent this. It’s not even a backdoor, it’s functionality that these researches think should be hidden from programmers for whatever reason.

Open source devices would have this functionality readily available for programmers. Look at rtl-sdr, using the words of these researches, it has a “backdoor” where a TV dongle may be used to listen to garage key fobs gasp everyone panic now!

What do your people ask then? “Does it come in red too?”