Reply to post: Re: Physical write-enable switches

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Re: Physical write-enable switches

"Of course they are an option."

No, they're not. Once they're there, someone's going to mandate its use, which presents a problem when it turns out you locked in a vulnerable firmware, only it turns out it's SO difficult to service physically that it'd be far cheaper to just pay any fines.

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