Yeah, of course, it would be better in many ways if the firmware wasn’t closed.

And runs with an USB cable flashing other peoples ESPs to ruin everyone’s day

Open source stack will not prevent this. It’s not even a backdoor, it’s functionality that these researches think should be hidden from programmers for whatever reason.

Open source devices would have this functionality readily available for programmers. Look at rtl-sdr, using the words of these researches, it has a “backdoor” where a TV dongle may be used to listen to garage key fobs gasp everyone panic now!

Politicians seem to be the only ones using it. Works great as an containment area.

I have yet to see a 3B model that’s not dumb.

What do your people ask then? “Does it come in red too?”

If you remove the fishes, replece the cat with a baby, and add a dollar on a fishing hook, it’s literally the same.