Yeah I wouldn’t trust a firmware update from that company. They didn’t review code well enough when not under severe duress, ya gonna trust that they ship competent patches under the gun!?

oh fuck

Patched devices self-destructing, how convenient for Bill Gates and pals at Microsoft.

I used to work building stuff in hospital IT testing is one of the most important parts of building. And the most amazing thing is, with AI at its current level, there really is no excuse for having missed something this big. People are spinning up LLMs and limiting what they're trained on so they don't know about this news and some of the frontier models are taking less than 10 minutes to find the bug and it's just one after another. Kimi, GPT, pick one. FIVE. YEARS.

By the way, one reason I posted this and believe it is true is after the update I saw a Q crash just last night.

They knew, just hid it and hoped nothing catastrophic would happen. There were some reports early on years ago people had lost coins. The whole thing gives sbf vibes.

Im not on the bip110 camp (but honestly who TF knows at this point)... But @Matthew Kratter pointed out something interesting. The possibility of the firmware bricking devices being the intent... They mentioned that the firmware won't fix the issue... So it's not a stretch to assume other intentions. Idk if bricking prevents you from retrieving the manufacturer UID but someone asked this question over on X @Uncle Ted ⚡️

They were bricking themselves before the update aswell.