Government asks for kill switchs to be installed on privately owned devices.

Yup, another great excuse to deny us right-to-repair, lock down hardware and create more e-waste. There must be better ways to prevent the snatching in the first place.

Ban motorcycles since it looks like only criminals use them these days.

Quite happy with my bike thanks and not a crim. Why punish me for my choice of transport? I take up a lot less space than a car.

Think you missed a joke old boy

I'd blame being tired but it's more likely I'm an idiot..... :p

isn't it illegal to be two on a motocycle in some countries? (Colombia maybe?)

TF did I just read? Is that for real?

Its super easy to do this and still preserve repairability. Just make the lock opt in and configured by the user with a password. But realistically they won't do that and just disable resetting without some sort of online connection to the company.

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