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		throwaway613834 on Sept 28, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: A “right to repair” movement tools up > If you give something away to repair you always have to trust them. I got confused about this initially too, but that's not relevant to the argument being made here. The argument isn't about repair -- that's something you can always avoid. The argument is about others (thiefs, etc.) messing with security-related components and bypassing security. He doesn't want that to be possible.

hutzlibu on Sept 28, 2017 [–]

" He doesn't want that to be possible."

But it is and allways will be. You can make it harder, yes, but in my opinion the benefits are way smaller than the disadvantages.

throwaway613834 on Sept 28, 2017 | [–]

Possible != practical. His threat model most likely doesn't include the NSA, and for normal adversaries hardware security can be plenty sufficient.

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