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Not at the scale we're talking about here. These structures are very thin, far thinner than bond wires which is about the largest structure size you can handle
by mschuster91 3y ago
Not at the scale we're talking about here. These structures are very thin, far thinner than bond wires which is about the largest structure size you can handle without a very, very specialized lab. And you'd need to unsolder the chip, de-cap it, hope the fuse wire you're trying to override is at the top layer, and that you can re-cap the chip afterwards and successfully solder it back on again.
This may be workable for a nation state or a billion dollar megacorp, but not for your average hobbyist hacker.
- z33k 3y agoYou’re absolutely right. In fact, some billion dollar megacorps use fuses as a part of hardware DRM for this reason.