Alan B. Pearce:
>I would suggest this could well become your headache, to recover such 
>devices afterwards ...

On the other hand, there is also a risk that someone could throw their
device in the toilet, which would prevent it from working and maybe they
would come back to me and request to have it replaced. Sure, there might be
an odd hacker who finds the ICSP connector interesting and attempts to do
something which destroys it, then abuses the warranty to request a
replacement, thus incurring a cost for me. But this will not happen very
often.

>You mean you haven't checked out how to protect the bootloader area?

How could I protect it against erase? All PICs can be erased, can't they?
And if they can't, the attacker could replace the PIC for a new one, and put
the spoofed bootloader into that new PIC.


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