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Most adorable bug Raspberry Pi 2 crashes when you take a photo of it

Raspberry Pi 2 users have found that the credit-card-sized systems reboot when users snap a flash photo of the units. The problem is found in a component known as the WL-CSP package: a bare silicon die with tiny blobs of solder attached. The Foundation is investigating just what, exactly, happens when the component gets flashed with a high energy pulse from a xenon flash tube. Fortunately, the Pi wont suffer any permanent effects from being flashed, the Foundation says.”]

Source: https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2015/02/11/most-adorable-bug-raspberry-pi-2-crashes-when-you-take-a-photo-of-it/

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