alt Hacker NewsThe evil is enshrining other people's choices into law, unnecessarily.
There was never going to be anything preventing non-technical folks from buying iPhones. They can and should have what they like.
Why should there be a law that forces that same compromise onto anyone who can only afford a single device and needs to use it to access their bank?
Because when you don't do this, people get scammed out of money.
If there is a series of buttons you can press to circumvent the anti-scam measures, then the scammers simply walk you through pressing those buttons. If you cover them in giant warning labels the scammers simply add explanations into their patter. The buttons must physically not exist, for gullible people to not get scammed out of money.
The next response will be 'well maybe we shouldn't accommodate them'. They vote, and there's more of them than you.