Reply to post: Re: Pretty nasty

Chipmaker FTDI bricking counterfeit kit

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Re: Pretty nasty

"It's an EEPROM setting that is totally reversible."

I rather suspect that the Windows users that can understand that sentence is likely to be a rather small subset, and the Windows users that can understand it and do something about it, smaller still.

Therefore, while technically reversible, the original statement still holds true. The driver is intentionally bricking people's hardware.

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