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On Wed, Feb 21, 2018 at 12:49 PM, Jean Flamelle eaterjolly@gmail.com wrote:
Disclaimer: this is a brainstorm of ideas on what is practical. I am a
appreciated.
economic support to be had for anyone involved. It wouldn't agree with my morals if someone had to ask Luke's permission to make an EOMA card,
remember that software can always be fixed after it is released.
hardware *CANNOT BE FIXED*.
chinese clones of USB3 cables that fail to obey the USB3 charging standard.
chinese knock-offs of chargeable fidget-spinners that explode and cause lithium battery fires.
so the most extreme case is also the most damaging, but it doesn't actually matter which is more "extreme", *any* damage to the reputation of a mass-volume Certified Standard is enough to completely destroy the Standard, due to the sheer volume of people who will blame the STANDARD *and* the Standard's CREATOR.
question: how do you propose that people not get murdered by the incompetence of an individual who blatantly disregards a hardware standard's safety warnings? (we are extremely lucky that nobody has murdered anyone through the deployment of "bad-usb").
l.