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Raspberry Pi 2 can be DoSed by bright flashes of light

Feb 16, 2015 7:12AM PST

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This effect was personally noted in the 1980's.
Feb 16, 2015 11:25PM PST

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

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I looked up the U16 processor
Feb 17, 2015 11:35AM PST

and from what I can tell it's not metal covered like an i3 or AMD processor ?
Maybe silk? Don't laugh at me now! (maybe I'm reading it wrong) Blush so that's how light can effect it ?
Digger

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The chip is usually in some plastic covered form.
Feb 17, 2015 2:05PM PST

Said plastic is usually good enough but years ago folk found you could crash PCs by taking flash photos.

Old news is news again.
Bob