Flasher: Implement "erase" command to unprotect NRF52 based tags #332
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The regular (disregarding glitching) way to remove APPROTECT from NRF52 devices is to issue an "erase all" command. This PR implements this in the Tag_Flasher and the ESP32_Flasher, so that Tags that came locked from the factory can be overwritten with new firmware.
As the UICR holding tag information is also lost, one will need to piece together a new one before the tag can work with e.g. Newton_M3_Universal-full-flash.bin.