[Coco] Plague to DW users ?

Gene Heskett gheskett at wdtv.com
Wed Oct 22 17:55:49 EDT 2014


On Wednesday 22 October 2014 14:11:04 Luis Antoniosi (CoCoDemus) did opine
And Gene did reply:
> http://hackaday.com/2014/10/22/watch-that-windows-update-ftdi-drivers-a
> re-killing-fake-chips/
> 
> 
> Luis Felipe Antoniosi


I am with FTDI on this, but I would have stopped at tagging a "this is a 
fake chip, and will be bricked at a random time in the next 10,000 
transactions.  Get that message into the logs, and then just godoit.

To arbitrarily brick, without any warning, seem like a very good recipe 
for a lawsuit by some consumer group who hasn't a clue.  They will win 
most of them, but the losers will eat their dinner.

Cheers, Gene Heskett
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