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Xenon Flashes Can Make New Raspberry Pi 2 Freeze and Reboot

Posted by timothy on from the camera-shy dept.

An anonymous reader writes Unfortunately for Raspberry Pi 2 owners who are trying to photograph their devices, ... the Raspberry Pi 2 has been found to be Xenon flash sensitive. Any camera with a Xenon flash aimed at the device is causing the device to freeze for a few seconds before rebooting. The forum thread about the bug is an interesting play-by-play of how the problem was narrowed down.

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  1. Bring out the tinfoil by thue · · Score: 5, Funny

    I am guessing that wrapping it in tinfoil would fix it? I know it works great for stopping the mind-control waves from getting into my head.

  2. Enough! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Stop using Flash, it's a persistent vulnerability, and Youtube has an HTML5 video player now.