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		icebraining on June 26, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: A Teenager's IoT worm is bricking thousands of dev... Soft-bricking is hardly comparable to burning something down. More like adding an extra lock and throwing away the key. Inconvenient, but not destructive.

oaw-bct-ar-bamf on June 26, 2019 [–]

To you as a domain expert, yes. A typical user just tosses the device into the trashcan. For him it’s effectively bricked.

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