26 Feb
2012
26 Feb
'12
6:22 p.m.
> They're worried about the idiot that builds a
one-off programmer for
> use in production, and doesn't test it thoroughly, and then destroys
> hundreds or thousands of chips. [...this does happen...]
It's too bad that the only way that they can come
up with to prevent
abuse is to prevent anybody from building a programming device except
under close supervision. There must be a better way!
Of course there's a better way. I'm not sure there's a better way for
someone who wants to do business in the USA today, though; I wrote a
rant here, but on reflection it's probably inappropriate.
About the best I've come up with: publish nothing officially but leak
the data in some plausibly deniable way, so that it's not difficult to
find for the likes of us here but is sufficiently dodgy-looking to
scare off anyone contemplating depending on it in a corporate
production environment?
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