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0 pointsuserbinator5y ago0 comments

This is rapidly starting to become less true

Unfortunately, both for right-to-repair and actually owning the hardware you bought.

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TPMs don't impede your ability to repair anything. Soldered ram is a hassle, but it's not any more malicious than soldered CPUs. It's a design choice, and tradeoffs had to be made.

mappu5y ago

> TPMs don't impede your ability to repair anything

There are some stories like this: https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/akw558/apples-t2-security...

It's suggested that many such devices might be stolen. But there will also be devices where the user forgot to wipe their data (or didn't know how); or devices that are only just damaged enough that you can't wipe the user data.

Probably an official Apple store can refurbish them somehow, but that is the NOBUS / EARN IT argument.

p_l5y ago

Well, that's more an explicit T2 issue that goes beyond what is known as "industry standard" TPM. Apple just hates you a (big) bit extra.

p1necone5y ago

This kind of stuff shouldn't really theoretically have to affect repairability, but Apple seems to go out of their way to make sure that as much as possible gets bricked when you replace things.

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