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Don't forget Apple. They absolutely hate customers servicing the hardware they bought and paid for, and they fight it with both technology and lawyers.

Remember that awesome time when Apple disabled phones, because they had a 3rd party home button installed? Absolute scumbags.

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I mean, it sure seems like a scumbag move, until you understand the full reasoning behind enforcing encrypted keys for each piece of security hardware. Which I believe was to close a security loophole.

To my memory the bricking of phones was a bug related to not handling the non-matching key condition correctly. But I believe they fixed that bug quickly?

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