Igor Forgor
I doubt any of their lawyers believe a single thing they say, but if it gets the courts and lawmakers to side with them, then they’ll say it. Most individuals don’t have the capital to fight it, so building up a ton of evidence beforehand to use if they have to defend against one of those lawsuits is probably a good strategy, even if it means holding off on publicly disclosing the solutions and fixes for now
Sharing the fix is what lands you in prison, in part because of dmca. The company arguments include circumvention under dmca, protecting copyright holders, that its “illegal hacking” (its not, its reverse engineering) and that no one wants to do it. This is tangible evidence that there are devices which were sold working, were remotely bricked, and could and would be working today if customers had ownership of the products that they paid for, and it can be done without proprietary information of the companies
High vis vest + Paintball marker with oil based paint
Or an angle grinder
Not a backdoor, just undocumented commands on the hci. You would already need access to the device from the microcontroller side to leverage them. Also it’s not uncommon for older devices like this to have undocumented commands
Breathing in oxygen causes oxidative stress, hence antioxidants
Note that many things called antioxidants (e.g. whats in some fruits) are actually oxidizing but trigger your body’s own antioxidant production mechanisms