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Re:Xenon Death Flash: a free physics lesson (2015) by Glanford on Monday October 19, 2020 @04:51AM (#24824438)
Both are due to the same photoelectric effect according to Wikpedia, however it doesn't seem like xenon flashes are the most suitable thing to erase those chips and I don't think ultraviolet lights would cause the same issues on the Pi that an xenon flash would.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EPROM

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Re:Xenon Death Flash: a free physics lesson (2015) by upofadown on Monday October 19, 2020 @08:39AM (#24825760)
I never heard that camera flashes could actually erase the EPROM. They just disrupted its operation ... which sounds a lot like parasitic photoelectric effect.
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