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Not at the scale we're talking about here. These structures are very thin, far thinner than bond wires which is about the largest structure size you can handle without a very, very specialized lab. And you'd need to unsolder the chip, de-cap it, hope the fuse wire you're trying to override is at the top layer, and that you can re-cap the chip afterwards and successfully solder it back on again.

This may be workable for a nation state or a billion dollar megacorp, but not for your average hobbyist hacker.



You’re absolutely right. In fact, some billion dollar megacorps use fuses as a part of hardware DRM for this reason.




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