[theoryofx]

"these exploits that need a human in the loop to deploy -- I'd be more worried about who you let near your electronics "

These devices are flashed in factories in China and receive firmware updates over the air from China. There's no human required.

"you need a human analyst to listen to the interception. Perhaps a second to translate it."

Have you missed out on this new "AI" thing everyone is talking about?

[firefax]

>These devices are flashed in factories in China and receive firmware updates over the air from China

The updates often come from US based FTP servers.

>Have you missed out on this new "AI" thing everyone is talking about?

Still need an intelligence officer to act on the data -- takes time.

[theoryofx]

"The updates often come from US based FTP servers."

Almost never FTP and it's not a significant difference if the Chinese company uploads it to S3 and the device downloads it from there.