in interviews, they said if you give them examples of "xyz" is prohibited by applicable law, they would remove it. They would not help you spy on them probably, by backdooring their infra or sth.
So if you were forced to keep f.e. a door lock on your house (that you bought), because as part of the purchase the developer required it - would you be fine with it too? You could technically jail break it...
how would that be a cultural renaissance? quantity without at least discoverability just makes it worth-(less). And it's not like chinese companies are by default anti ip, they do like their work protected like most companies...
To some degree. But esp for drivers, you still need to know when they go wrong, and steer them right, or your code will either just not work or be an unmaintainable, not-upstreamable mess.
Because it specifically has guard rails installed. The default, and somewhat inherent in the instruction following logic, is not saying no and making things possible, especially if run as an agent.
sorry but this is just dumb. sure, there are a number of ways you can diy this. Congrats, you picked the most annoying and least secure one, that is not even remotely comparable.