FTDI: Difference between revisions

FTDI has employed aggressive measures such as bricking or injecting garbage data via undocumented features into users' chips that were determined to be clones or counterfeits by FTDI's drivers. This led to backlash and [[Microsoft]] removing FTDI's driver from [[Microsoft Windows]]. Eventually, FTDI backed down.<ref name="brick">{{Cite web |date=25 Oct 2014 |first=James |last=Sanders |title=FTDI uses Microsoft Windows Update to disable devices using counterfeit chips |website=techrepublic |url=https://www.techrepublic.com/article/ftdi-abuses-windows-update-pushing-driver-that-breaks-counterfeit-chips/ |url-status=usurped |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230307174533/https://www.techrepublic.com/article/ftdi-abuses-windows-update-pushing-driver-that-breaks-counterfeit-chips/ |archive-date=7 Mar 2023 |access-date=21 Jun 2026}}</ref><ref name="inject">{{Cite web |date=1 Feb 2016 |first=Brian |last=Benchoff |title=FTDI Drivers Break Fake Chips, Again |url=https://hackaday.com/2016/02/01/ftdi-drivers-break-fake-chips-again/ |url-status=live |website=Hackaday |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20260621180710/https://hackaday.com/2016/02/01/ftdi-drivers-break-fake-chips-again/ |archive-date=21 Jun 2026}}</ref>