Seriously, now I want to buy a camera, smash the chip, and crack their firmware so it doesn't have the check. As far as I know there is no secureboot involved, so it should be trivial. This Is Just Inexplicably Dumb.https://twitter.com/marcan42/status/1088472549715918848 …
They make the camera modules (using off-the-shelf Sony sensors), and apparently make a ton of money off of it (the Pi has small margins, the camera does not).