Saturday, 5 November 2016
Fjfc Stole From Camiloml
Fjfc Stole From Camiloml
After someone on bios-mods posted a link to a bios modded by Fjfc, aka felipejfc, I decided to take a closer look at some of the files hes hosting at his site, here. The first one I looked at was his no whitelist sp54846, and I immediately noticed that the timestamps for all the bios related files were from 2008-2012. This was strange since Fjfcs contributions to the bios modding community didnt start until early 2014. However he made sure to include links to his paypal and bitcoins donation in the bios installer, which were the only files with a timestamp of 2014.
So I decided to look at camilomls modded sp54846 because I wanted to see where Fjfcs sp54846 bios had actually come from. As it turns out, the modded bios that Fjfc is taking credit for was modded by camiloml. All the timestamps matched up for all the files.
And all the modified files each have the same MD5 hashes. Everything was identical.
After looking further into his work, Fjfcs method for modding bios that incorporate Insyde Secure Flash comes directly from BDMaster and Sovem, however Ive yet to see him give credit to anyone in any of his work. Bios modding has come this far because of the work done in the past, and we shouldnt forgot that nor take credit for what others have done. Im starting to wonder if Fjfcs has made any original bios contributions...
Update: Fjfc deleted his SP54846_NWL_GENERAL4.zip file after seeing this post. So heres a mirror of it.
Available link for download