Today, the US government’s offer to product makers is: “If you add a chip to your gadget at a price of a mere $0.26, and load a digital lock onto that chip that nominally prevents a customer from using the product in a way you don’t like, we, the mighty US government, will lend you our courts, our federal prosecutors, and our prisons so you can terrorize anyone who provides your customer with a lock-removing tool.
