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DIY tinkerer invents MacBook tool that breaks Apple’s repair locks (www.404media.co)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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DIY tinkerer invents MacBook tool that breaks Apple’s repair locks::“To whoever it is at Apple who decided to not make this available to technicians, ‘Fuck you, we win.’”

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[–] [email protected] 79 points 11 months ago (2 children)

so apple put a DRM on a glorified reed switch? and it's legal somehow?

[–] [email protected] 51 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Laws exist for everyday people like you and me, not for megacorps like Apple. Laws and regulations are just minor business expenses to them.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

A fine is just an calculable price to do something wrong, businesses love them, from the classic study:

https://rady.ucsd.edu/_files/faculty-research/uri-gneezy/fine.pdf

Parents used to arrive late to collect their children, forcing a teacher to stay after closing time. We introduced a monetary fine for late-coming parents. As a result, the number of late-coming parents increased significantly.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Just keep adding zeroes until you get the desired outcome.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

This is the correct answer. If the fine was $1000 for every time you picked your kid up late you can guarantee parents would never arrive late. Same goes for businesses. The fine just needs to be in the hundreds of millions to billions. They’d change their tune.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Yep

[–] possiblylinux127 23 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I think its actually illegal to bypass DRM to fix it

[–] [email protected] 35 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Even though I bought it. It's illegal to tinker with some components. And we're all OK enough with it.

I mean how did this get past the "Klaus Schwab is eating your children" crowd meanwhile we can't legally reverse engineer things we bought

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

I don't think those is DRM, as it digital rights. I think they were using it as a comparison.