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		zb on Dec 21, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Apple kills a Kickstarter project The pins are on the outside of the connector. It's trivial to short-circuit them by accident, which could easily cause a fire if there were not a chip in there to control when you "shove 5V over the wire".

Dylan16807 on Dec 21, 2012 [–]

So it has to act as a relay. That's easy enough. Is the spec of how this chip works at all open or is it a DRM method with an excuse?

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