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“right to root” would prevent so much eWaste.
I would love a variant that is like, if you stop delivering security and minor fixes/backports to a device, you have to give access to root or better even to the bootloader.
better yet, open source it when it gets abandoned.
full on, no excuses. all board schematics, source code and documentation.
shit, require it from the start.
The problem is that it allows users to detect when they're connected to a phony cell tower like the ones police and ICE use to intercept communications, and we Can't Have That.