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> This is one of those things where you want a bit of a walled garden to force users of a technology to adhere to certain rules.

That’s what consumer protection laws with teeth and electric safety certifications like CE or UL are for, not walled gardens.

History has shown that relying on hardware DRM, like Apple did with Lightning doesn’t prevent manufacturers, from doing dangerous things, because they’ll find ways around it sooner rather than later.



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