[ComputerGuru]

You’re right - I think I was misremembering the details and it was something like a poisoned supply chain leading to people who thought they had bought the real thing shipping devices that ended up breaking or something.

[kragen]

Well, it was "a poisoned supply chain leading to people who thought they had bought the real thing shipping devices that ended up breaking"; it's just that FTDI was the company that poisoned the supply chain and broke the devices.

[prutschman]

I was misremembering the specifics too, it turns out. It was much closer to do_brick(). Ugly.