[NCARC] FTDI serial driver crippling devices

[Darren Kalmbach]

Since we tend to have a lot of serial involved in ham radios, this is a
very pertinent article for us.

Apparently FTDI is going on the offense against devices using counterfeit
chips.  The latest driver actually disables the peripheral:

http://www.csoonline.com/article/2837851/supply-chain-security/chipmaker-deliberately-cripples-user-devices-with-driver-update.html