I think this is a slight update of http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4035748 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4035748 where a lot of the obvious questions

I think this is a slight update of http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4035748 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4035748 where a lot of the obvious questions (JTAG? Over the Internet? Is it a maliious backdoor or engineering/debugging leftovers?...) have already been discussed.