If the message said something like please see your dealer while we restructure our new deployment system. I might believe they are encrypting or adding CRC. But they didn't.

I'm also amazed they never did CRC (not for tampering purposes) but for checking valid transfers (pretty standard stuff for eons).

With the up-market direction Meridian is moving I think it has little or no impact. So I doubt we will ever see it on the web again. The upgrade of 5200 and failure of 8000.1 Apodizing update is proof in my mind the old Meridian is long long gone (well before this whole episod).

Poor folks wanting to buy/sell used equipment that are not up to date are now screwed.

- Fiddler (IMHO)

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