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Re:Plastc will cease operations and will not fulfill any pre... by bigiain on Thursday April 20, 2017 @08:34PM (#14162142)
Sure - but people _are_ doing this at home with stuff they buy off eBay right now: http://zacsblog.aperturelabs.com/2013/02/decapping-integrate...

And as for "far beyond average hardware hacking skill", I suspect if you got Bunny Huang, Michael Ossmann, and Travis Goodspeed together and curious - this might well be broken in a single weekend! ;-)

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Re:Plastc will cease operations and will not fulfill any pre... by blackguardx on Thursday April 20, 2017 @09:18PM (#14162346)
Your link just describes decapping and reading the state of mask programmable PROM. Reverse engineering a secure IC and coming up with an exploit is several orders (like 10) of magnitude more involved.
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Re:Plastc will cease operations and will not fulfill any pre... by kolinko on Friday April 21, 2017 @03:50AM (#14163774)
So if the first takes a day, the latter - 10 million days?
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Re:Plastc will cease operations and will not fulfill any pre... by blackguardx on Friday April 21, 2017 @09:24AM (#14165316)
But seriously, difficulty also implies required skill and equipment.
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