>If I buy a laptop and I have to crack all the passwords first to get access to the system then that would not be considered 'owning it' in any normal sense of

>If I buy a laptop and I have to crack all the passwords first to get access to the system then that would not be considered 'owning it' in any normal sense of the term. I think a better comparison would be a locked bootloader with remote access built in (and phones are already this way more or less)