| Title | Update: FTDI Yanks Chip-Bricking Driver from Windows Update, Vows to Fight on | |
| Date | Saturday October 25 2014, @06:12AM | |
| Author | n1 | |
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| from the it's-good-news-for-now dept. | ||
The Register Follows with, FTDI yanks chip-bricking driver from Windows Update, vows to fight on:
Chipmaker FTDI has pulled a driver from Windows Update that could brick devices containing knockoff versions of its USB-to-serial bridge chips, but says it won't back down on its aggressive anti-counterfeiting stance.
Earlier this week, hackers from various hardware forums began noticing that FTDI's latest driver would set a USB device's USB product ID to 0 if it contained a fake version of one of FTDI's chips. Once zeroed, neither Windows, OS X, nor Linux would recognize the device anymore, rendering it useless.
Naturally, owners of devices containing the counterfeit chips were less than pleased.
Responding to the growing furor, FTDI now says it has yanked the offending driver from Windows Update so that Windows users will no longer receive it automatically. But it says it has no intention of giving up the fight against (presumably) Chinese chip knockoff artists.
Related article: FTDI Driver is Disabling Fake Chips
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