Digital Cameras and Airports Scanres or X-ray...

Firmware is resident on a chip, like a RAM chip except that the data doesn't go away when the overall device is powered down. You wouldn't say that an airport scanner absolutely could not damage the firmware chip, but the chance is so minute I wouldn't worry about it. It would be a freak accident. And "wiped" would not be the word I'd use because that means wiped clean as in erased. There's even less of a chance of that happening.

But did you get the whole story, and if this was the case do you not think forums would be FILLED with complaints of this? I have done customer support based work for the last 7 years, and NEVER do you get the true or full story.

i am sure the person did something else to the system.

In almost all modern equipment, firmware is on flash memory - the same sort of flash memory as is found in a flash card (well, it's possible it's NOR flash rather than NAND flash, but it is still flash memory).

Flash is used for firmware in digital cameras, laptop BIOSes, firmware in devices like hard disks and DVD drives, mobile phones, GPS receivers - just about anything that has any sort of built in software.


David

The days of ROM, EPROM and PROM have gone now. Everything's flash.