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They do. That bluetooth dongle? Hundreds of kilobytes of proprietary ROM implementing an entire Bluetooth stack (these things always implement at least the lower layers and invariably also support doing the upper layers for HID emulation mode). Those ThinkPads? Embedded microcontrollers with updatable proprietary blobs in Flash memory that you can't audit, and which have direct access to all system RAM via the LPC bus.


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