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I wonder if China is making all these cheap wifi chips (esp8266, esp32) etc as backdoors into US infrastructure.
by aswanson 8y ago
I wonder if China is making all these cheap wifi chips (esp8266, esp32) etc as backdoors into US infrastructure.
- baq 8y agoNo more Chinese phones for me either way. It's enough that Google knows everything about me, PLA doesn't have to.
- conceptme 8y agoWhat phones do not have Chinese components?
- e12e 8y agoNot only that, which base stations don't have Chinese components? But cpu, baseband, ram etc is certainly more serious consideration... And I don't see how you can get around that. Unless you plan to build a dumb phone around a Motorola 68k or something?
- LinuxBender 8y agoEricsson for one.
- avip 8y agoAnd how could you use esp chips as "backdoors"? Maybe espressif made them because they thought there is a good market for low-cost SoC with good network stack?
- aswanson 8y agoI hope that is the case; the pessimist in me says the price/performance is too good to be true.
- eeZah7Ux 8y agoI hope esp8266 & so are not relevant enough to have a sofisticated backdoor built in.
- hathawsh 8y agoIt seems likely that the esp8266 chip family is being used in industrial automation. It's a very powerful yet cheap chip, making it practically ideal for adding covert spyware. I love it, yet it scares me. It's a little too amazing.