{"id":3428,"date":"2010-02-16T06:53:56","date_gmt":"2010-02-16T11:53:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/?p=3428"},"modified":"2010-02-16T06:53:56","modified_gmt":"2010-02-16T11:53:56","slug":"repostsleuthing-uncovers-the-mystery-of-kingston-microsd-cards-crappy-qa-boing-boing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2010\/02\/16\/repostsleuthing-uncovers-the-mystery-of-kingston-microsd-cards-crappy-qa-boing-boing\/","title":{"rendered":"rePost::Sleuthing uncovers the mystery of Kingston MicroSD cards' crappy QA Boing Boing"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Sleuthing uncovers the mystery of Kingston MicroSD cards’ crappy QA<\/h1>\n

By Cory Doctorow<\/a> at 2:46 AM February 16, 2010<\/p>\n

via Sleuthing uncovers the mystery of Kingston MicroSD cards’ crappy QA Boing Boing<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

When Bunnie Huang was in South China overseeing production on his versatile ChumbyOne<\/a> device, he discovered a major quality issue with Kingston’s MicroSD cards. At first, he assumed that he’d gotten a counterfeit batch, but further investigation proved them to be legit. Kingston wasn’t willing to give Bunnie any details on its QA process, so Bunnie did some amazing<\/em> engineer-sleuthing on Kingston and its competitors’ MicroSD, and wrote up the results in a damning report that is one of the most fascinating accounts of everyday engineering I can remember reading. Bunnie Huang wrote the book on reverse engineering<\/a>, literally, so he isn’t afraid to start dissolving memory cards’ encapsulant with acetone, or start comparing \/sys entries to get comparative reads on the the electronic card ID data records. Posts like this make me want to be like Bunnie when I grow up.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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