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Those who bought stolen devices should return them and ask for a refund from EBay. You are generally not allowed to resell stolen goods, although I am not sure
by codedokode 8y ago
Those who bought stolen devices should return them and ask for a refund from EBay. You are generally not allowed to resell stolen goods, although I am not sure if EBay is liable here.
> Back in October 2014, the FDTI manufacturer shipped a device driver that ... would make any operating system stop seeing the device by setting its USB product ID to 0 , basically killing the USB device.
Well, if that id can be set to 0, it can also be set back to original value, isn't it?
- Jonnax 8y agoIf I recall correctly, it didn't get recognised as a USB device anymore so you couldn't reflash it.
- crankylinuxuser 8y agoLinux was able to allow connections to VID:0 PID:0 for usbserial.h about 3 days after the initial reports. From there, it was possible to rewrite the FTDI firmware to restore functionality.