Comment by troyvit

> since any random enemy with hardware access

Once they have hardware access who cares? They either access my data or throw it in a lake. Either way the phone is gone and I'd better have had good a data backup and a level of encryption I'm comfortable with.

This not only makes it impossible to install your own ROMs, but permanently bricks the phone if you try. That is not something my hardware provider will ever have the choice to make.

It's just another nail in the coffin of general computing, one more defeat of what phones could have been, and one more piece of personal control that consumers will be all too happy to give up because of convenience.