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Update 3/9/25: After receiving concerns about the use of the term 'backdoor' to refer to these undocumented commands, we have updated our title and story. Our original story can be found here. The ...

What if the future of IoT didn’t depend on Wi-Fi? Imagine deploying a fleet of sensors in the remotest corners of the world, tracking wildlife, monitoring environmental changes, or managing logistics, ...

A hot potato: The ESP32 chip, found in over a billion devices worldwide, contains undocumented vendor-specific commands that could potentially be misused to access device memory and manipulate ...