"William Sommerwerck" writes:

Whatever this stuf is, common sense suggests it was designed not to be
easily removed, especially by chemical means. Otherwise, there would be
little point to it.


I think that's only true in some cases. Since this CAN be removed
using just brute force, it's a lot easier to reverse engineer
PCBs and such with it than, say, hard Epoxy.

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