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Damn, you mean we can't just swap resistors to under/over volt anymore?

I am getting old.

(tongue in cheek, and yes, I am getting old)

Shit, I remember just using a pencil to lower resistance values.

I remember some boards, you would have to paint a cpu pin with nail polish to stop it from conducting, or carefully jump one of the several hundred pins on the socket…

You can. The main thing is that software-based attacks are easier to perform.

That'd be reason to take away the reenable from UEFI but write protecting the EFI variable where changing it already requires to boot into an EFI editor is just being dicks, pardon my French. Just let me enable it , I am aware of the risks.

I think the trouble is that it is not possible to distinguish (through reliable technical means) a responsible overclocker such as yourself versus an unscrupulous actor editing EFI variables in flash. So, because some bad guys/gals found a way to damage the system, all the good guys/gals suffer as a result, because the system cannot tell them apart. Reminds me of airport security...

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