The actions of issuing something that is labelled as a driver update which carries out
unauthorised modification of firmware on a computer device could well be a
violation of Section 3 of the Computer Misuse Act:
http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1990/18/section/3As FTDI are a UK based company, they could well be in the shit as they've
pretty much admitted to doing it willfully, on Twitter.
FTDI, I know you're monitoring, so sort out your shit out otherwise I'll have
to put different devices in my products. Yes, I buy direct from FTDI so I'm
not even complaining this is burning me but I'm just not interested in doing
business with a corporation who behaves this way.