Maybe it's an attempt at security through obscurity? They're essentially money printers, so if somebody were able to find a way to compromise them there would be a nice payout. There's no automatic update feature built in and not everybody would bother to update the firmware for something that they rarely interact with.
Topic: Why are AntMiners' firmware closed-source / non-GPL? (Read 726 times)
Why are AntMiners' firmware closed-source / non-GPL? What does Bitmain have to lose by making the source open?
(cf. the Bitcoin StackExchange question)
(cf. the Bitcoin StackExchange question)
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