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So that’s how in an event of war US adversaries will be relieved of their devices

> The anti-rollback mechanism uses Qfprom (Qualcomm Fuse Programmable Read-Only Memory), a region on Qualcomm processors containing one-time programmable electronic fuses.

What a nice thoughtful people to build such a feature.

That’s why you sanction the hell out of Chinese Loongson or Russian Baikal pity of CPU — harder to disable than programmatically “blowing a fuse”.

parent piskov 9 months ago

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