That's a pretty bleak and somewhat unrealistic outlook. And just because they are 'another rootkit' or 'discontinued' (which I already mentioned) doesn't mean t

That's a pretty bleak and somewhat unrealistic outlook. And just because they are 'another rootkit' or 'discontinued' (which I already mentioned) doesn't mean they aren't existing examples. As for your statement about being customer-hostile: I disagree. I do not want an Activation Lock that someone else can bypass. Call that what you want, but to me that's a feature, not a bug. The fact that there was a mistake made doesn't mean the whole system is therefore bad. And it also doesn't mean that suddenly it's open to an evil maid attack either (where the heck did that come from?). It's almost like you are completely unfamiliar with root of trust, public-key cryptography and secure enclaves. While nothing is perfect, having a hardware root-of-trust (like Intel ACM kickstarts everything else, Apple's SEP, AMD's AGESA, or ARMs TrustZone) means you can actually prevent evil maid attacks. So far, out of the ~100 different SEP implementations Apple had, only 2 had enough flaws to be bypassed, and those are decades old by now. That's a pretty good trackrecord. Your statement about no other vendors having pre-installed 'rootkits' (they are not rootkits, they are not hidden from any kernel), is wrong again. The products and vendors I described two comments ago have this. You can buy this right now. And with your mentality, you'd call Windows Autopilot a rootkit as well. All of this together leads me to believe you're just angry at something and not really living in the same world as the rest of us.