What is up with this. Why don't we have any advocates suing to block them from going through with deploying hardware that contains these features? I wish I had more money to make a lawsuit. Consumers should have the right to repair.

• If I was purchasing official Apple hardware and paying those outrageous prices to begin with and then PAYING for Apple hardware again because I want to repair something that might not be covered by my warranty, why do I need to run some additional software just to make it work correctly?
• This is going to frustrate so many people that will try to repair these products and then Apple will refuse to run their proprietary software to make MY hardware work correctly. I have the right to modify any hardware that I purchase after I bring it home. How does this play out with European laws? (They are so much more pro-consumer than US laws)
• Anyone know if I would be able to purchase European hardware to avoid this system?

I hope that Apple is forced to run this on any hardware that I would bring into the store and reimburse me for my troubles/gas and time expense for this. Some people don't live close enough to their stupid Apple Proprietary Stores that they need to mail their devices out and it takes weeks and sometimes months to get it back.

One of the reports showed he wasn't intending on making explosives but part of the chemical make-up of what he was making was volitile. My guess would be that the next steps to final product would have stabilized what he was making. Such as many products we own in our very own homes can be very volitile during the manufacturing process.

I definitely noticed this too while reading the story.

How did political biased news get on slashdot. This is a complete waste. I'm so sick of reading this type of news and it infiltrated the technology news source I use. Whoever submitted this pulled a biased news source of CNN for an anti Trump article. What a great job publishing an article. The posts are getting worse. There was an article just the other day about a billboard hacked that was just a conspiracy and it seemed the writer of the summary didn't even read the article as the edit time of the article was prior to the publishing time of the slashdot story and it listed as it was just an ad campaign if you continued reading. These articles should be flagged or removed.

It would take just a simple exploit through this and someone could then potentially gain access to your network. Wpa2 etc isn't secure but this is just another attack point that you have no control of. What if I only run Ethernet for security and they go do this I would be pissed off.