It's sad that that's not up to the user. maybe paternalistic comprising is what Apple's customers really want, but I'm convinced it's bad for the user and bad for society in the long run.
I think it's a natural consequence of miniaturization and other technology advancements. With today's technology you can hide a hardware backdoor inside a counterfeit version of a chip and the only way it could be detected would be to de-cap the chip and examine it under an electron microscope.
Hard disagree — there are plenty of things where human brains will take a shortcut no matter how smart the individual is. Security is especially a category where humans will fault, no matter what.
