Re: A load of brick doo-doo...
"Novel approach: Brick hardware via MS updates. Who would know?"
Well considering the story you are commenting on.. quite a few people..
"I suspect updates with a load of brick doo-doo will be common now that the idea is out.
Management response: "We are so sorry, terribly sorry, we are really, really, really sorry. We are so very, very, very concerned about this. Really we are...concerned and sorry.
Now go away.""
Or..
Get a bollocking from MS for going too far, and stop bricking hardware.... On pain of driver blacklisting on Windows. At which point.. ALL FTDI chips would fail.
Imagine the scenario.. You do an update, and Windows defender flags the FTDI driver as malware..
No.. There is unlikely to be a hardware bricking party. Because it's hard enough to get people to update already. And FTDI's actions have not made them very popular outside the usual trolling fraternity.
Please note.. FTDI have been commanded to pack it in, and do what should have been the maximum extent of their actions in the first place.. Refusal to support non brand chips.
Mine's the one that will have a new Arduino without a FTDI chip in it next week. Supplied FOC by the company I bought the one with the fake chip from.