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It’s not over engineering. It’s because of research like this, along with other researchers like Charlie Miller.

Apple generally isn’t out to make things willfully overcomplicated without good reason.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42260379

All of which is fantastic, until you can't trust Apple because they are under a secret obligation to disable that feature. Non-programmable hardware gating the I/O lines or power isn't hackable in the same way.

From the thread I linked:

> On Macbooks made after 2014, no firmware is involved

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