Olin Lathrop escreveu:
> Isaac Marino Bavaresco wrote:
>   =

>> As a note, I already received PIC samples from a local Microchip
>> distributor already programmed with other people's program (not code
>> protected).
>> It appeared to be the control firmware for a breath alcohol tester
>> (there was ASCII strings with messages).
>>     =

>
> This is not something I would not let slide unless these were free samples
> and they told you they might be pre-used.  In some products the PIC could=
 be
> programmed in circuit using low voltage programming and rely on the fact
> that LVP has not been disabled.
>
> This is above and beyond expecting new parts that haven't been abused in
> non-obvious ways.
>
>   =


I don't know if those were free samples, a friend of mine got three
parts (from the distributor) so I could make a prototype for him.

Certainly a client ordered to the distributor a batch of preprogrammed
parts with his own code, somebody forgot to turn on the code protection
and somebody took three (or more?) parts from the batch and sent to my
friend as samples.

I think about what the code's owner would think if he discovered that
his code leaked this way...


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