Your phone has all your personal information and has the ability to record conversations or take video. All of which is secured on the assumption that you can’t just replace a component with a compromised one. And we do know that sophisticated state actors do exist and are willing to go after journalists, dissidents even protestors.
We need a way for these devices to be repaired or supported longer but allowing any random component is not the answer.
> allowing any random component is not the answer.
Leave that up to the owners of the device, they know better what they want than you do. Will there be scam attempts? Sure there will, like there are already. Inform about that risk - without exaggerating for monetary purposes - and let the customer decide. Not you, not the manufacturer, not the government.
How would owners possibly know that a compromised component has been added ?
And we have decades of experience that the majority of people simply do not care enough to learn about the intricacies of their products and would prefer vendors do that on their behalf.
> How would owners possibly know that a compromised component has been added ?
Some will, some won't. They don't need you or some other individual or company or institution to decide for them they are too ignorant to decide for themselves where to go for replacement parts. If you're so worried over these problems just take the thing to Apple to have it repaired but leave open the option for others to get their own parts and repair it themselves or have someone repair it for them. The same goes for anyone else, it is not as if the option to use 'authorised' repair services will disappear.
Your phone has all your personal information and has the ability to record conversations or take video. All of which is secured on the assumption that you can’t just replace a component with a compromised one. And we do know that sophisticated state actors do exist and are willing to go after journalists, dissidents even protestors.
We need a way for these devices to be repaired or supported longer but allowing any random component is not the answer.