I'm of two minds about how the T2 safeguards access to storage. On the one hand, safeguards like these are a great step forward for endpoint security to guard a

I'm of two minds about how the T2 safeguards access to storage. On the one hand, safeguards like these are a great step forward for endpoint security to guard against device theft. On the other hand, if you break your machine in some way that your storage is still intact - too bad, you're locked out. What Apple is really saying with this kind of design is that you need to treat your machine as if it were disposable. You won't worry about losing your data if your laptop only has a cached copy. If your machine breaks, ditch it, get another one, redownload your data from the cloud. But most customers don't actually use their Macs this way. They don't see their highly-priced luxury machines as disposable. They don't pay for cloud storage; if they do, then they don't keep all their data backed up to their cloud storage accounts, and they expect that their original data will still be available. They don't have 3-2-1 backup strategies and they don't plan for being locked out of their cloud backups. So this doesn't feel to me like Apple focusing on security. It feels like the security-focused extension of Apple's general strategy: rising prices and declining repairability as the basic formula for strategic revenue growth from their Western upper-class customer base. And that's something to be resisted.