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Undocumented "backdoor" found in Bluetooth chip used by a billion devices
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this post was submitted on 08 Mar 2025
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Don't see how that would matter much. The "scope of the vulnerability" is sufficiently large enough that it should not be partially or otherwise discredited as a risk.
If someone owns a Bluetooth device, then its fair to think that at some point they'd actually use it, being vulnerable to the backdoor access. That's billions of uses right there, on a regular basis.
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It’s a reasonable question. There are countless devices using esp32 chips which do not use the Bluetooth parts of the chip at all.