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Dylan16807
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There are various sane reasons to have a chip in there to process data.
There is no benign reason to involve authentication to shove 5V over the wire.
zb
on Dec 21, 2012
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The pins are on the outside of the connector. It's trivial to short-circuit them by accident, which could easily cause a fire if there were not a chip in there to control when you "shove 5V over the wire".
Dylan16807
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So it has to act as a relay. That's easy enough. Is the spec of how this chip works at all open or is it a DRM method with an excuse?
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There is no benign reason to involve authentication to shove 5V over the wire.