FTDI Driver Breaks Hardware Again
http://it.slashdot.org/story/16/01/31/1720259/ftdi-driver-breaks-hardware-again
It seems that the infamous FTDI driver that got famous by
intentionally bricking counterfeit chips [NOTE: that driver was
later removed] has got a new update that injects garbage data
('NON GENUINE DEVICE FOUND!') into the serial data. This was
apparently going on for a while, but only now is the driver
being pushed as an automatic update through Windows Update, thus
many more people stand to be affected by this. Let's hope that
nobody dies in an industrial accident when a tech connects their
cheap USB-to-serial cable to a piece of machinery and the
controller misinterprets the garbage data.
- - -
Here we go again?
--Lauren--
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