I think FTDI might be shooting themselves in the foot here. Plugging in a USB is messy, and you will sometimes get an "Unrecognized Device" error, which you si

I think FTDI might be shooting themselves in the foot here. Plugging in a USB is messy, and you will sometimes get an "Unrecognized Device" error, which you simply fix by unplugging and replugging. I could see a similar hiccup causing their driver to sometimes "brick" a legitimate device. Then this false positive ripples back to a manufacturer who bought 50,000 of those chips on the last run, and thinks they might all be fake... It turns everything into a huge mess. Very poor management decision, and shame on the engineers for implementing it.