Secure enclaves and their ilk should really not be soldered on devices, or on silicon. What happens if/when someone manages to create a persistent enclave expl

Secure enclaves and their ilk should really not be soldered on devices, or on silicon. What happens if/when someone manages to create a persistent enclave exploit? It might be entirely impossible to know if you're affected, and the only plausible (but not very reasonable) end user mitigation might be to replace an entire logic board. Likely for a quite hefty sum of money. I'm not saying it's all together a bad idea with a more secure processing unit, but there are quite literally no good (user centric) reason to make it hard to replace, certainly not in anything bigger than a phone form factor. Specifically about Apple: With its persistent claims of user centricity should not need to be told this, that it should be removable/movable, unless of course this has nothing to do with the user at all. Exactly what is up for debate, but there's a certain asymmetry in the message, the effort required, the end user benefits, and the trajectory of this work that I have a hard time reconciling with anything primarily benefitting the user. Especially considering the otherwise quite lackluster attention to quality and security seen in the last few years. Lots of security features that are ostensibly for the benefit of the user, but where one can tell a parallel story that is about complete platform control, in the light of which the design decisions seems to make more sense.