Spacecraft get a lot of SWOOSH-BANG-PHOOMP, too. BGAs seem to survive OK. They're a *lot* better than QFNs, unless your CM is incompetent.
They're not even new-fangled, anymore. They've been around for forty years (or more) and seem to have passed others' tests.
Hey, you got used to transistors. And then ICs. And then surface mount.
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If (s)he has the right kind of VPN, this is no problem. Still kind of creepy, though.
I know you're right, and it makes me just a little bit sadder.
Very true, but the stuff you and I work on are low-value targets.
Usually.
I keep it all airgapped just in case. And other stuff.
Actually, you'd be amazed at how that pans out in real life. Amazed, I tells you.
I've used both, and I am not kidding when I say that I'd rather use UDP for something that needs to be actually reliable, as opposed to buying "insurance".
Absolutely.
I do indeed.
Ummmmmmm... the people who did those were pretty darned skilled.
If people *that* good are after you, you're gonna get got.
Besides, the vector there was USB. They thought that one all the way through. So these are not your ordinary l33t hax0rs. They figure it was a country starting with I and an organization that rhymes with .. well nothing but it starts with M.
Them's some hardcore troubadours right there.
True dat, but ... airgaps good.
Not in this case :)
Indeed.
Big fan of Bruce.
But could they then do anything other than vandalize it? After all, you didn't leave it on a public IP.
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Those were all improvements in robustness [*]. BGA went in the other direction and I don't want to go in that direction. A flexing FR-4 board connected to something with the compliance of a rock via solder balls has IMHO never been a good idea. Flex-board is different but only if the solder joints can be inspected.
[*] With the exception of ESD to which tubes are nearly immune. Which is why I replaced the active element in a roof-mounted preamp with a tube after the umpteenth transistor replacement and after I almost slid down on a mossy section of that roof.
Well, so far we've had zero BGA failures. But our gear doesn't get shocked or vibrated much. We have had a few gull-wing failures.
I knew two guys who died working on antennas. One fell off an antenna tower on an offshore rig, off the coast of Africa, installing supervisory control gear that I designed. A year or so later, his younger brother was putting up a ham antenna on his roof and hit a power line.
You obviously believe that but it's not true. BGAs are a huge advance.
Even relays have their use. ;-)
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