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How is it not illegal to do this without at least first ASKING the user for confirmation? I'd be annoyed but find it 'merely anti-consumer' rather than 'intent
by mjevans 5y ago
How is it not illegal to do this without at least first ASKING the user for confirmation? I'd be annoyed but find it 'merely anti-consumer' rather than 'intentional destruction of property' if the BIOS refused to finish POST without the user confirming that yes, they want to sacrifice this CPU and make it (p)owned by $CORP.
- akelly 5y agoWatch the video, yes there is a prompt.
- judge2020 5y agothe prompt: https://twitter.com/FedsAgainstGunS/status/1473479524805492744?s=20 https://twitter.com/FedsAgainstGunS/status/14734795248054927...
- mjevans 5y agoThank you for the screencap, I wasn't about to watch a video to discover this. 1) It's WAY WAY too easy for someone to not really read this and just press Y to continue, like load setup defaults. 2) There should _not_ be a way of disabling the prompt (the popup even mentions you can do this.) 3) If ever there were a time for a simple math problem (like multiply two numbers and enter the result) to indicate a user had read and understood the prompt, this is it.
- robocat 5y ago> There should _not_ be a way of disabling the prompt (the popup even mentions you can do this.) I think you are mistaken. I am presuming that the prompt is suggesting that you can disable the PSB security feature (in which case the prompt doesn’t show, which seems very sensible).
- judge2020 5y agoBecause this is on the marketing page or spec sheet that you see before you buy the product, thus it being bound to $manufacturer's board is a feature. It's the same reason Apple execs haven't been thrown in jail for selling iPhones that only run iOS.
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