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The problem is larger than that, it's the IT industry's obsession with denying users the ability to evaluate their own risks and take their own responsibility. You do that all the time every day in most other areas of life, but somehow interacting with technology is different. The manufacturer always knows better. Don't want to have a time component to your biometric authentication because you know your risks? Too bad. Google and Apple know better. Password is required to unlock Touch ID.



I doubt any Apple engineer is very against the idea that an iPad user roots it. It's more like the legal and financial mindset. Legal doesn't want trouble and can shoot anyone who it doesn't like with law bullets, Finance just want MAW $$$.




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