www/proprietary proprietary-sabotage.html

[David Allen]

CVSROOT:        /web/www
Module name:    www
Changes by:     David Allen <dma>       16/03/05 03:14:58

Modified files:
        proprietary    : proprietary-sabotage.html 

Log message:
        Added new information about Microsoft automatically installing FTDI 
driver software that's designed to sabotage competing chips.

CVSWeb URLs:
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/proprietary/proprietary-sabotage.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.23&r2=1.24

Patches:
Index: proprietary-sabotage.html
===================================================================
RCS file: /web/www/www/proprietary/proprietary-sabotage.html,v
retrieving revision 1.23
retrieving revision 1.24
diff -u -b -r1.23 -r1.24
--- proprietary-sabotage.html   2 Mar 2016 00:43:09 -0000       1.23
+++ proprietary-sabotage.html   5 Mar 2016 03:14:58 -0000       1.24
@@ -101,7 +101,8 @@
 FTDI's proprietary driver for its USB-to-serial chips has been
 designed to
 <a 
href="http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/10/windows-update-drivers-bricking-usb-serial-chips-beloved-of-hardware-hackers/";>sabotage
-alternative compatible chips</a> so that they no longer work.
+alternative compatible chips</a> so that they no longer work. Microsoft is <a 
href="http://it.slashdot.org/story/16/01/31/1720259/ftdi-driver-breaks-hardware-again";>installing
 this automatically</a> as an
+&ldquo;upgrade&rdquo;.
 </p></li>
 
 <li><p>
@@ -250,7 +251,7 @@
 
 <p class="unprintable">Updated:
 <!-- timestamp start -->
-$Date: 2016/03/02 00:43:09 $
+$Date: 2016/03/05 03:14:58 $
 <!-- timestamp end -->
 </p>
 </div>