Correct, but the implication in the tweet was that it was secretly embedded by the manufacturer for nefarious purposes. The Twitter OP jumped to paranoid conclu

Correct, but the implication in the tweet was that it was secretly embedded by the manufacturer for nefarious purposes. The Twitter OP jumped to paranoid conclusions in part because of their obvious lack of understanding of even simple embedded hardware concepts. You can kill someone with a hammer, but that doesn't mean the hammer was designed for killing.