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A decade ago, I never would have thought that Apple would be the ones mainstreaming Trusted Computing. (Well, the iPhone was out... maybe 12 years ago.) These were machines that supported the hacker ethos of tinkering and experimentation, even if the company involved was dedicated to abstracting more and more of the computer's guts away from the user.


You could crack the case and do stuff to an Apple ][. From day one the Mac has been hostile to this, right down to weird recessed screws.




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