[userbinator]

These are the enemies of right-to-repair and the third-party aftermarket.

[fake-name]

This isn't strictly true.

While traceability and tamper-proofing are prerequisites for preventing right-to-repair, they're also needed for things like maintaining supply-chain-integrity, which is becoming a adjacent, but different concern.

A lot of the things in the article (diamond dust in the coating,s, etc...) are basically just tamper detection, and even then they require someone to visually validate the PCB. I don't really have a problem with that kind of thing.

[Lind5]

Questions about authenticity can occur at a supplier, with contractors to a supplier, or during the movement of components between contractors and to the customer. The types of anti-counterfeiting options to be used depend both on the value of the component and the consequences of fake components. But they all focus on the ability to uniquely identify a component so it can be tracked through final system assembly https://semiengineering.com/new-and-innovative-supply-chain-...

[tsomctl]

If anything, tamper detection is extremely important for things like CT scanners and nuclear warheads.

[genericone]

But potentially also the enemy of fake Amazon product sellers. And the enemy of that enemy is my friend.