> unauthorized tampering The rub is in who is doing the authorization? Increasingly it's the manufacturer, not the user. That is a gaping chasm of a differen

> unauthorized tampering The rub is in who is doing the authorization? Increasingly it's the manufacturer, not the user. That is a gaping chasm of a difference. I don't think many people really want to punt on that to the manufacturer for the lifetime of the device; they just aren't thinking about the implications when they are purchasing it. The idea that they will almost certainly want to do something during the lifetime of that device, that the manufacturer might not want them to be able to, is a sort of buried and non-obvious risk, since what the manufacturer might allow is both subject to change and not necessarily clear upfront.