>if all you can find is an iPhone or some other trusted compute platform you're probably SOL This reason alone should be impetus, for national security reasons

>if all you can find is an iPhone or some other trusted compute platform you're probably SOL This reason alone should be impetus, for national security reasons, to severely tax products containing universal machines the device owner does not have full control over (by additional purposeful actions beyond owners' simple ignorance of the technology). I say a 100% sales tax on the retail price is fair, all tax proceeds going to fund GNU-compatible competition to the likes of iPhone and Playstation (and your proprietary microwave, and car, and TV, and ...). A post collapse society having to deal with iPhones hopefully will adopt the [corporate] death penalty for proprietary shenanigans like this. It is borderline treasonous how many people will die because your product's bootloader was locked! Unforeseen consequences, Gordon.