alt Hacker NewsWouldn't it be great if companies spent the time and effort needed for all these wonderful things that prevent the owner from using the hardware they own how they see fit and instead invested the resources into making the product better ?
All this is basically a fragile anti-user timebomb that will only generate more avoidable e-waste eventually.
For some users, preventing downgrades to an insecure version is a better product since it protects against evil maid attacks.
(Although ideally they would itself trap that functionality behind a fuse, so you have to opt-in but can't be opted out.)