Way back when we had bare chips in a design and it was found that for testing we needed to put a light cover over the board. I guess folk get to repeat history.
My friend put theirs into a case which was not transparent so that's why they couldn't make it happen.
Bob
Engineers are studying ways to make future models immune to the potential denial-of-service attack.
I wasn't sure if this post went in this forum but ...
http://arstechnica.com/security/2015/02/just-released-raspberry-pi-2-can-be-dosed-by-bright-flashes-of-light/
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