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by josephcsible 1487 days ago
> Whatever we can do to put the fakers out of business is good!

Not if it means hurting innocent third parties, who didn't know the chips were fake and now they're all in the field and not working.
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manicdee 1487 days ago
“Innocent” third parties who scored a great deal on discount “Prol1fic” chips on AliBaba?

Provenance is an important part of logistics which you lose as soon as you source parts from third party sites like Amazon, eBay, AliBaba and so forth.

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josephcsible 1487 days ago
This change isn't punishing the people who scored a great deal on discount “Prol1fic” chips on AliBaba. It's punishing the people whose supplier's supplier's supplier did so.
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