That is the point: The pure threat of being forced to open that code could shift the business model to not have proprietary server / cloud code at all.

So pirating full works for commercial use suddenly is “fair use”, or what? Lets see what e.g. Disney says about this.

So pirating full works suddenly is fair use, or what?

How about getting forced to go open source when they abandon a product?

I remember when Thomas called me to show me something new: like Gopher, but with hypertext. And I have been on the original web server, Tim Barners-Lee’s NeXT cube.

So primarily a server administration failure, inviting anyone to take them down.

It was never up in this house.

Good. Sadly it was fixed.

The Power 10 is not RISC-V. It is a RISC processor, namely of the Power ISA architecture, based on the good old PowerPC 601.

I have not dealt with those chips for about 30 years, though.

I’ll wait and see when someone finally produces a RISC-V chip that can keep up with the big boys. But they can’t even compete with ARM at the moment, so I am not holding my breath.

Wrong. Read the analysis. It is a BT vulnerability. One can probably design a cheap attack system that just sends a erase flash command to any BT device in reach, instantly bricking every BT enabled ESP32 device.

It is not easy to determine how fixable this is. IIRC, the ESP32 has the wireless stack hidden from user space, and I am not sure if it is a blob included during link time, or if it is stored in a ROM of the chip. I do have the chips and the development enviroment in my studio, but (luckily) I decided to use a different chip for my project.

But I know there is a load of systems using either the ESP32 as their main processor, or as an auxiliary processor to add WiFi or BT capabilities, so this really is a big oh shit moment.

Just wait until a jester creates a software that sends an erase flash backdoor command to any BT device it sees.

While I have a few ESP32 in my collection, I am now happy that I chose a different platform for my project.

I wonder what people will say in Nürnberg next week at Embedded World.

Looks like Swiss engineering is no longer the top of the pops anymore?

Maybe if he took his medication, he could be a normal person.

Yes, but at that point, they had not even tried that. Here and now, millions over millions have been wasted and no tangible advance has been made.

Learn physics, kid. Maybe learn math first.

Like fusion power, just 20-50 years away.

Again, it has been shown that a quantum computer is better than a normal computer in solving worthless quantum benchmarks. Hurray.

I still wait for any quantum computer solving a real problem like those normal computers solve every day.