Il 15-Apr-98, John Lowes scrisse:


> I would bet Microchip did this to keep people from hacking the code.
>> From a security standpoint, it's great that they did something.
> The 16c84 is used in europe in television access smartcards like the
> ones sticking out of your DSS receiver.  It is easily hackable and I'll
> bet there are millions of copies out there.

i bet they've changed the chip with a more secure one...

> If you are just making prototypes in your basement, then don't blow the
> fuse; security isn't important.  But make sure it's blown for shipped
> product if you need for your code to be secure.

selling a windowed pic is a non-sense for me...
an OTP part is cheaper... anyway shouldn't be simple
to expose to UV rays only the cp fuse and not the program memory....


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