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Cake day: June 18th, 2023

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  • Before anyone thinks this could be good news for EA…

    The offer comes from a group of investors that includes Silver Lake, one of the world’s largest private equity firms, and Saudi Arabia’s controversial Public Investment Fund.

    WSJ states that it would “likely be the largest leveraged buyout of all time.”

    A leveraged buyout from a PE firm means they’ve decided EA needs to die and they’re going to pick the carcass clean.





  • I don’t think is is a backdoor. At the moment I wouldn’t consider this article any more than FUD.

    It’s unclear to me if the security company has actually said what the vuln is or not, but if it’s what was presented in the slides linked in the article this is at worst something that can be “attacked” from a computer connected via USB (and I’m pretty sure it would require special software too), where the attack is sending out possibly invalid bluetooth messages to try to attack other devices or flashing new firmware to the ESP itself. It’s not a general “backdoor” in the ESP32 itself. At least that’s the best interpretation I’ve been able to make. Happy to be corrected if anyone finds more info.