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The mandatory ability to add keys or disable Secure boot is also quite likely just as secure, except that you still own your device.

I'd even be happy if it was a hidden switch like on the first Chromebooks.

Without Linus tinkering on his own machine back in the '90s, we may have never had Android today. We may have never had OS X on x86 if the random apple employee hadn't decided to try to do it one day.

I support the ability to make, modify, and create. Having good products is important, but let's not sacrifice too much.

Cars still have hoods, even the fanciest ones. Let's not put locks on the computer equivalent.




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