Re: @Vector - listing of certified vendors
Dodgy Cables Inc. will have a lot of complaints on eBay and Amazon or wherever they're selling, which will result in them getting booted. So yeah, it doesn't stop them as they could keep coming back under different names, but that's a cost of doing business as well. With the chip costing pennies it seems they've all decided it is easier to go legit, or if they want to make crappy cables, make crappy USB cables instead.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
