and its not like your mac address isn't seen by the access points and likely logged anyway simply organizing the information they alerady have to provide other useful insights

The thing that really bugs me the most about this is, they don't have to make counterfeit chips to sell them, if they simply made another chip that used an ssop-24 or whatever standard case the FTDI ones use, and made it pin compatible, but released it under their own name, people would still buy them, most people buying cheap chips from china know they're not getting an ftdi chip, they don't really care they want something so they can build to a price and include X functionality.

If the silicon itself is a unique design (and i'm not saying it is) then they would be totally above board..

3 insane people it appears but your point is still valid

But i doubt many would get this much fame for it

developing the complex work of fiction they want to portray as news, it takes some time to make an elaborate and convincing lie

so depressingly likely

and just a minor update to windows 8

so it takes you to a 100% complete receiver same as this device does

apples to apples

strictly speaking its not a new way, its just a media hyped version of the old way, only now instead of a $10 drill and $5 piece of plastic to finish an ar15 lower, you need a $1200 machine...

and if you don't want to buy any expensive machining equipment you can make an ak47 with some sheet metal and a large format printer