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[AuckLUG] Re: LG Cautionary Tale

Guy K. Kloss G.Kloss at massey.ac.nz
Thu Sep 21 08:20:54 NZST 2006


On Thursday 21 September 2006 00:07, Chilling_Silence wrote:
> Cant remember the exact details but they werent pretty :p

Was something about an undocumented feature to detect whether a is's a CD or 
CD-R drive that was frequently used. LG decided to use it otherwise and do 
nasty stuff. Forgot what it was exactly, though.

The LG engineers seem to be having some quite strange ideas at times.

Guy

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