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How is it not illegal to do this without at least first ASKING the user for confirmation? I'd be annoyed but find it 'merely anti-consumer' rather than 'intentional destruction of property' if the BIOS refused to finish POST without the user confirming that yes, they want to sacrifice this CPU and make it (p)owned by $CORP.

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Because this is on the marketing page or spec sheet that you see before you buy the product, thus it being bound to $manufacturer's board is a feature. It's the same reason Apple execs haven't been thrown in jail for selling iPhones that only run iOS.

Watch the video, yes there is a prompt.

the prompt: https://twitter.com/FedsAgainstGunS/status/14734795248054927...

Thank you for the screencap, I wasn't about to watch a video to discover this.

1) It's WAY WAY too easy for someone to not really read this and just press Y to continue, like load setup defaults.

2) There should _not_ be a way of disabling the prompt (the popup even mentions you can do this.)

3) If ever there were a time for a simple math problem (like multiply two numbers and enter the result) to indicate a user had read and understood the prompt, this is it.

> There should _not_ be a way of disabling the prompt (the popup even mentions you can do this.)

I think you are mistaken. I am presuming that the prompt is suggesting that you can disable the PSB security feature (in which case the prompt doesn’t show, which seems very sensible).

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