Comment by raydiak

So everyone's fine installing opaque binary blob drivers which run in kernel space on their desktops and laptops and not even having root access to their own cloud-controlled phones, but some undocumented low-level ESP32 commands which require the device to already be compromised are a news-worthy threat vector.

Really wonder if something got lost in translation, here. In the past we would have just thought that was cool and looked for a way to turn it into a SDR.