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Chipmaker FTDI bricking counterfeit kit

JP19

Re: Very dumb idea

"What is proposed here, is that the driver makes a change to the device that prevents the device from operating on any system."

If you don't want someone else's driver making changes to your device then don't program your device with VID/PID which requests that driver to be loaded. Not exactly rocket science is it.

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