As a consumer I have no way to know if the FTDI in my device is real. It really isn't my fault.
This is FTDI's way of incentivizing companies using consumers, like I said in my original comment, and it sucks.
This is FTDI's way of incentivizing companies using consumers, like I said in my original comment, and it sucks.
I didn't know. But it still gets repossessed, and I'm still out $1k.
(True story, and my first brush with the laws around black markets)
Edit: Apparently I don't proof-read