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    19 hours ago

    I really want to like FDR more, but the whole Japanese internment thing really puts a bad taste in my mouth.

    In those times, the WHOLE WORLD was at War. Nobody knew if they themselves, or their loved ones, or their countries, was still going to be around when its all said and done.

    People do stupid/bad/wrong things when they are afraid/scared. Thats not restricted to just one person.

    FDR did ALLOT more good than bad. Cut him some slack, as he’s as homo-sapien as the rest of us, and his results were a net-positive.

    And also, there was a Congress and a Supreme Court back then too. It wasn’t just him. It was just the times. People were stupid-racist back then.

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  • Was quick browsing for openwrt and found the banana pi r3.

    One thing that surprised me when I was looking to upgrade my old router ith OpenWRT is if a firmware for your router supports ALL of the features/hardware of that router. In my case, Wifi support was not supported, so I had to disregard using OpenWRT as a choice.

    So be sure to look carefully at the firmware that you find. I personally had just thought that if a firmware exists for your hardware that all of the major (but maybe not minor) features would be supported, and that is not always the case.

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  • From the article …

    The ubiquitous ESP32 microchip made by Chinese manufacturer Espressif and used by over 1 billion units as of 2023

    From the person I’m replying to …

    I’d kind of like to know whether these can be used against an unpaired device or not. That’d seem to have a pretty dramatic impact on the scope of the vulnerability.

    Don’t see how that would matter much. The “scope of the vulnerability” is sufficiently large enough that it should not be partially or otherwise discredited as a risk.

    If someone owns a Bluetooth device, then its fair to think that at some point they’d actually use it, being vulnerable to the backdoor access. That’s billions of uses right there, on a regular basis.

    From the article …

    The researchers warned that ESP32 is one of the world’s most widely used chips for Wi-Fi + Bluetooth connectivity in IoT (Internet of Things) devices, so the risk of any backdoor in them is significant.

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