> Any bad actors with power can just add themselves to that subset of humanity - this is the same reason we dont add software special backdoors that only specia

> Any bad actors with power can just add themselves to that subset of humanity - this is the same reason we dont add software special backdoors that only special sets of humanity can unlock. This analogy doesn't make sense. The alternative to adding backdoors is to not add backdoors (which is safer). The alternative to restricting hardware repairs to a subset of humanity is not restricting them at all (which is more dangerous).