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> The code to blow the fuses is already on the box. That software was delivered to the box under a license agreement which literally says the box will only work
by waste_monk 4y ago
> The code to blow the fuses is already on the box. That software was delivered to the box under a license agreement which literally says the box will only work with that software.
From what I understand this is not the case, more recent production runs would have had the e-fuse code built in from factory but older units would have been purchased without it and had it pushed via firmware update at some point.
- kube-system 4y agoI mean that anyone who would have had one of those firmware updates, would have had a licensed box that was receiving updates and had agreed to the terms of purchasing the box and associated software service. It wasn’t some action taken in a specific act of malice against anyone in particular. It was functionality baked into any device that was operational at the time the function was delivered.
- pannSun 4y agoThat the terms were agreed to and the sabotage (sorry, anti-tampering) premeditated does not make this non-malicious. A contract may shield them legally, but morally makes their actions no less vile.
- kube-system 4y agoWe’re talking about “malice” in the legal sense, because it is a legal requirement for the above claim of “vandalism” Malice in the terms of establishing mens era is purely dependent on what Cisco thinks about this feature, not what anyone else thinks about it.