FTDI driver and bogus chips
2014-10-23 01:24:30.693572+02 by
Dan Lyke
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Careful: Windows FTDI drivers are intentionally bricking devices that use counterfeit FTDI chips.
The workaround for this driver update is to download the FT232 config tool from the FTDI website on a WinXP or Linux box, change the PID of the fake chip, and never using the new driver on a modern Windows system. There will surely be an automated tool to fix these chips automatically, but until then, take a good look at what Windows Update is installing – it’s very hard to tell if your devices have a fake FTDI chip by just looking at them.
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#Comment Re: FTDI driver and bogus chips made: 2014-10-24 15:31:33.204861+02 by:
TheSHAD0W
I'm very surprised Microsoft is allowing this update to be pushed.
#Comment Re: FTDI driver and bogus chips made: 2014-10-25 00:51:02.422322+02 by:
Dan Lyke
Brainwagon has a good summary.
I suspect that if Microsoft had known, Microsoft would not have allowed the update to be published, because this is a big hit to user trust of automated security updates. I don't know what the tipping point will be, but I suspect that the Internet of 5 years from now is going to look very very different, because we're stumbling around some crisis of trust levels looking for both a solution and a tipping point...
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