But bricking retroactively in the field is a bad move, and sends even more anger and RMA requests back towards parties.

Pepperidge Farm remembers the FTDI driver bricking.

kiicia an hour ago | parent | next [-]

gateway 3ds tried to brick 3ds-es of users of cloned cards, bricked whole swaths of actual users instead

undersuit 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

It's not bricked retroactively from what I've read.

If someone gets updated in the wild (like this person did without realizing they had a counterfeit board), they'll fail to boot.

Consider that that happened a year ago and this submission may be about the fix.

The "fix" in the thread is just not updating ever again.

	▲	undersuit 6 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		There is no fix that can be suggested in that thread. Pi LTD doesn't have the modified RAM Pis to test their firmware against nor should they be required to support modified hardware.