4 Jan
2010
4 Jan
'10
7:36 p.m.
--- On Mon, 1/4/10, Ethan Dicks <ethan.dicks at gmail.com> wrote:
Or the early Commodore PET computers with holes drilled through the pads for additional
RAM chips. Of course, once again, nothing really stopping a determined hardware hacker
from bridging wires to the severed traces...
-Ian
Sounds like
the nintendo wii modding scene. Nintendo
started putting
epoxy on the key chip the modders were targeting.
Turns out you can
heat up the epoxy with a small torch and it pops
right
off.
Or the epoxy or cut pins, etc., on the iOpener.
Some of the "fixes" did make it difficult to mod the
iOpener, but in
the end, none were successful in keeping out the determined
geeks.
It did take a while to pick that epoxy out, but it can be
done. ;-)