gquere
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This dongle is very likely to be this original attack https://github.com/JohannesObermaier/f103-analysis/tree/mast... but now packaged. If you want to read more this repo has the best doc: https://github.com/CTXz/stm32f1-picopwner. It's a multi-step attack where a payload is executed from persisted SRAM (RDP1 means you can read/write to it) after a quick reset. The fact that they mention freezing the chip heavily weighs in that direction since it's needed for higher clock chips.
I wasn't aware of that, I know of a few teams that do this internally and seemingly have no problems, I'll ask them next time I get a chance. Thanks for your answer.