Heh, maybe instead of circuit boards they are using wheat crackers.
Hah, I hadn't considered a hardware approach to limited use. I assume there's just a counter in there. There could, theoretically, be cryptographic reasons it can only do 3 programming sessions, but I doubt it.
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Hah, I hadn't considered a hardware approach to limited use. I assume there's just a counter in there. There could, theoretically, be cryptographic reasons it can only do 3 programming sessions, but I doubt it.