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Yup. Now we have long-range WiFi filling that niche.

• They split off from Google.

• They are not using satellites, they shine a lazer from one fixed tower to another, with range about 20 km.

That’s because the article that started the whole argument tried very hard to present an expected behavior for embedded chips as a security hole.

Should have used three spreadsheets. Excel tends to run slowly when a spreadsheet has more than a million cells in it.

There was no mention of over-the-air exploit, so eh.

Anyway, having direct unprivileged R/W access to platform memory is indeed a security hole, no matter the vendor.

It is not. ESP32 is an embedded chip with less than one megabyte of RAM. It cannot run apps or load websites with any malicious code, it only runs the firmware that you flash on it, nothing else, and of course your firmware has full access to every chip feature. If your firmware has a security hole, it’s not the chip’s fault.