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Saturday, January 3rd, 2009 10:27 pm (UTC)
And that, in some ways, is one of the more frightening aspects: The "perfect forgeries" that are indistinguishable right up until the moment when you find that, in some major and important way, they don't work.

With a counterfeit Samsung 2.5GB flash drive that lies to the OS to appear to be an 8GB flash drive, this is merely annoying. With, say, a counterfeit Kidde smoke-and-CO detector that doesn't actually detect CO (to pull one hypothetical example out of my ass), it could be lethal.

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