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liendolucastoday at 1:48 PM1 replyview on HN

Why not just paint the original chips with some special ink that says VOID IF TAMPERED over the RAM chips and the board? Pretty much like other hardware manufacturers do with seals or stickers, wouldn't this solve the issue?


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dofmtoday at 1:55 PM

When your fraudsters have near OEM-level resources, perhaps not?

(To be clear, I don't know either way; I'm just assuming that this was contemplated at the time because it's easier)

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