Kelnos, there are a few things you seem to not understand about these things in general. Fundamental things. I've heard your point before, many years ago with

Kelnos, there are a few things you seem to not understand about these things in general. Fundamental things. I've heard your point before, many years ago with regard to Blu-ray protections. From a security/threat perspective, that is true, which is why the threat model is turned into an iterative process that can be updated arbitrarily. It is understood the amount of labor required to break the model is specialized labor and limited, and there are mechanisms that can be used to isolate and target the sources of that limited labor when they communicate about forbidden knowledge like the internals which are kept as trade secrets, and then punished under the law. They already embed mechanisms that cause devices to brick. There were several devices where they had to issue a firmware update to get around a fault caused by one of their updates with regards to an internal battery that caused bricking when it lost power. This is very common, and if you can't prove they did it; its just natural end to the lifecycle where you'll have to payup again for a worse product.