[holio2k]

Maybe it's dead for some of us, but alive for others.

I've yet to come across "others" - not a single SEer who can provide evidence that the method works consistently against the majority of companies that're traditionally targeted.

I dont know what kind of evidence you need but this year I SEd a Lenovo monitor, a Ryzen 5900x cpu and a XFX 6900XT gpu from Amazon, some Bose headphones, a Xbox Series X, a PS5 and a Dyson vacuum cleaner using the ftid method. The method works if you know what you are doing. My failures using this method was with Microsoft after we raped them for several Surface Laptops i7/32gb/1tb/13’5” with gtx 1660 gpus. But the companies are catching up so the method is less effective than it used to be.