Reminds me of the time my dad bought a TRS-80 and the screw holes were filled with Glyptal to prevent end-user repair or modification. He drilled through the Gl

Reminds me of the time my dad bought a TRS-80 and the screw holes were filled with Glyptal to prevent end-user repair or modification. He drilled through the Glyptal, then contacted the literal president of Tandy to complain. Tandy never sealed the screw holes to its computers again (though they did still do the "warranty void if this sticker is broken" trick on some of their equipment). I doubt Apple will fix their practices though. They may be in the right: as soon as that MacBook got stolen it should have been considered compromised and completely forfeit. Cryptographically tying your hardware to your digital identity, as Apple does, provides, among other things, a means to recover your hardware without having to consider it untrustworthy. Hell, Tandy may have been in the right. TRS-80 hardware was bodgy as all get-out and sometimes downright dangerous to open: the cathode on the CRT was dangerously close to the mainboard and likely to fry the computer, if not the user, if the user wasn't skilled enough to open the machine very carefully.