Oh, and from the perspective of open hardware, these alarmist headlines are a real disservice. The natural reaction to debugging interfaces and firmware updates

Oh, and from the perspective of open hardware, these alarmist headlines are a real disservice. The natural reaction to debugging interfaces and firmware updates being "backdoors" and "security vulnerabilities" is to lock it all down. Espressif has been an almost unique level of open for this space. They've contributed to open source Rust toolchains for their chips. They've even publicly encouraged reverse engineering of their modem stack because it contains licensed code they can't release. I hate to see bad and damaging publicity be the reward for being just a little bit open.