{"id":346,"date":"2014-10-24T16:43:33","date_gmt":"2014-10-24T16:43:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wphost.spider-e.com\/?p=346"},"modified":"2014-10-24T16:43:33","modified_gmt":"2014-10-24T16:43:33","slug":"ftdi-relents-to-pressure-and-pulls-the-malicious-driver-from-windows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wphost.spider-e.com\/?p=346","title":{"rendered":"FTDI relents to pressure, and pulls the malicious driver from windows."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As I, and many others, reported <a title=\"FTDI USB driver intentionally and deliberately damages hardware?\" href=\"http:\/\/wphost.spider-e.com\/?p=343\">yesterday<\/a>, FTDI&#8217;s latest windows driver deliberately disabled users hardware. They have now bowed to public pressure and the backlash from the engineering community and pulled the update, and promised to issue a new driver &#8220;next week&#8221;.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>For more details see <a href=\"http:\/\/hardware.slashdot.org\/story\/14\/10\/24\/1330252\/ftdi-removes-driver-from-windows-update-that-bricked-cloned-chips\">this report on slashdot<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It is good that they have performed a U-turn on their policy of deliberately disabling hardware, but faith in the company is still shaken. Some will simply not trust them again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I, and many others, reported yesterday, FTDI&#8217;s latest windows driver deliberately disabled users hardware. They have now bowed to public pressure and the backlash from the engineering community and pulled the update, and promised to issue a new driver &#8220;next week&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,51],"tags":[86,85,83,74],"class_list":["post-346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-electronics","category-hardware-2","tag-bad","tag-driver","tag-ftdi","tag-windows"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p42WEU-5A","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wphost.spider-e.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wphost.spider-e.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wphost.spider-e.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wphost.spider-e.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wphost.spider-e.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=346"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wphost.spider-e.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":347,"href":"https:\/\/wphost.spider-e.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346\/revisions\/347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wphost.spider-e.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wphost.spider-e.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wphost.spider-e.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}