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Re: [AVR-Chat] Fuses: Permanently disable spi/isp

2007-10-23 by Manne Tallmarken

Thanks for your answer :-)
Well, this is always possible, though I did not really know that there was people who actually were doing it. So I guess it's rather "safe" to
disable a read-without-erasing-the-chip, then.

Manne


> There are places (former Soviet Union?) that "advertise"
> being able to recover "any" code. It costs, but it appears
> to be real. I think thay they physcically disolve the epoxy
> and read it out the flash with something like a scanning
> electron microscope.
>
> In the end, there does not appear to be any absolute way to
> protect your code. The big question is simply whether or
> not it is worth the money to someone else to crack it.
>
> Jim Wagner
> Oregon Research Electronics, Consulting Division
> Tangent, OR, USA
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