Comments by "Mikko Rantalainen" (@MikkoRantalainen) on "Louis reads Apple fan reactions to video on soldered in SSDs, and himself!" video.

  1. The important point to understand about TPM, T1 and T2 chips is that those are supposed to be able to securely store secrets. It should be always possible to replace the chip and store the required secrets to make it work again. The problems with inabilitity to swap chips to repair the hardware are caused by inabilitity to create full backup of the system, including the data you (or your programs) stored to TPM, T1 or T2 chips, even when you own the device and have all the credentials to access all the data. The fact that Apple doesn't want to fix the backup problem points that they prefer to sell you new hardware instead of allowing to repair the existing hardware. Pretending that this is caused by security requirements is just a lie.
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