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		olalonde on Nov 16, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Broadcom Wi-Fi Datasheets Not a really satisfying answer but I've been told it is to prevent competitors from reverse engineering.

timonovici on Nov 16, 2016 [–]

Yeah, probably you're right. And it's not like it would stop the really determined guys - X-Raying stuff would do a part of the trick, and maybe stealing the documentation would the other part.

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