CABLECOATL: get your lightning cables working again!

As iPhone & iPad users may or may not be aware, beginning with iOS 7, Apple has been instituting a policy of exploiting their periodic iOS / firmware updates to render iPhones increasingly incompatible with non-OEM (i.e. non-Apple-manufactured) lightning cables. They made no secret of doing this at the time, and cited safety concerns as their reason, the implication being that unscrupulous electronics manufacturers who refused to subject their product to Apple's quality control standards were m