[zkms]

> SoC power management, system bringup, and maintenance tasks are complicated enough these days to warrant a full small core tacked onto the side. These cores are necessary, and aren't going away. Complaining about them being there is just pissing into the wind.

There's a vast difference between such a core being used solely for bringup/power management/housekeeping and it having a network connection to the outside and being used for "remote management" (and running with godawfully insecure parsing code, at that).

[monocasa]

Which is why the next sentence (that you cut off) says

> Complain about what they're used for and the closed source nature of their code.

All of these cores will have the ability to have network connections because they'll bringup the whole SoC including the network MAC.