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My theory is that they were not destroying any kind of persistent data on these components like IC's; rather, destroying what/where/whom they might be able to i
by jradd 12y ago
My theory is that they were not destroying any kind of persistent data on these components like IC's; rather, destroying what/where/whom they might be able to identify or correspond with via serial numbers, dates, manufacturer, locations of where that component came from, etc.
At least for the components of which have no memory, volatile or not.
- dfox 12y agoBoth keyboard and trackpad controllers are microcontrollers with embedded flash, third chip (LT3957) says it is "programmable" in it's datasheet (although in this case it means that it's characteristics can be changed by values of external components, not that it contains any kind of non volatile memory).