Comments by "Mikko Rantalainen" (@MikkoRantalainen) on "Apple encourages the destruction of mint condition Macbooks while pretending to be green" video.

Technically that worker was correct. The way to fix that is to fix the legislation that prevents reusing stuff from the e-waste collection stack.
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@Scyth3934 I don't know about all the legislation. I live in Finland and here we have "SER collection sites" where "SER" is short for rougly "electric and electronic waste" in Finnish. The legislation assumes that everybody understands that if the device is possible to repair, it shouldn't be brought to SER location. But once it has been bring to such place, it should be assumed potentially unsafe to try to fix because of unknown history and as such, it cannot be released to public anymore. It would be cool if SER locations had two stacks: one for "stuff I no longer need but it was working when I brought it here" and "stuff that's known broken and e.g. is not safe to connect to grid". Here in Finland, the SER locations are only supposed to deal with the latter category but in reality most people are bringing stuff in the former category! I would expect the legislation is equally broken in many other countries and states.
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@DEMENTO01 It only takes one idiot taking stuff from the e-waste bin and the setting his house on fire to get very restricting legislation to be initialized. Similar to how speed limits for cars were introduced, too.
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The problem with full disk encryption is that to actually make it safe, the secret needed to decrypt it during the boot requires the user to enter the secret key. Otherwise you can pretend that storing the actual secret key on the DRM chip (typically called "TPM") is actually safe. And companies do not want to go with "user enters the password after every boot" because their users always forget the password.
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@erkinalp I'm thinking that the actual boot is CPU getting power and the secret key must be entered before the OS can be loaded. If you consider "boot" as starting the OS, then you're right and the secret must be entered before every boot.
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