[sgjohnson]

> Any technique with makes it impossible to repair or recondition by definition also makes it more difficult to pwn.

If you can touch it, you can pwn it. This is applicable to every piece of hardware ever existed, including the M2 Macs. Just because we don't have the (publicly available) tools (yet) doesn't mean that they can't be pwned.

More difficult? Yes. So difficult that currently thrown away Macs with Activation Lock on are solid e-waste? Yes. But don't expect it to stay so forever.

[throwaway290]

The whole point is to make it more difficult because there is rarely absolute security