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Old Oct 22, 2014 | 06:52 PM
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watch out for a windows update

It has the potential to brick your FTDI based USB hardware.

http://arstechnica.com/information-t...dware-hackers/

I haven't been around here much but I seem to remember that EcuFlash and the open port cables use the FTDI chipset.

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Old Oct 23, 2014 | 07:29 AM
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Here are the fixes in case you bricked yours.

Using Windows 8.1/7:
http://www.reddit.com/r/arduino/comm...rs_are/clgviyl

Using Ubuntu/Linux:
https://code.google.com/p/libcomm14c...mwareWithLinux
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