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by Tharre 165 days ago
If that's a concern, you can lock the OTP either permanently or with a password, before you hand them out. Or just use the older RP2040.

But I don't think that "targeting the education market" is accurate in the first place. They certainly make sure to serve that market with their very nicely priced Pico boards but it hardly seems to be their only goal. You don't go through the effort of spinning up a new revision to fix security holes if there aren't at least some industry customers.