I think the parent comment was refering to law(s) preventing reverse engineering of hardware - thus "Apple would prevent people reverse engineering the M1 if they could".
"locked down" from your comment as I understand it, is just making it hard to gain root on the device. Nothing in most Western law prevents you or I from jailbreaking the phone or cracking it open and looking at it under a microscope or whatever. Thats good. What would be perfect is of course publish schematics and manuals etc.
"locked down" from your comment as I understand it, is just making it hard to gain root on the device. Nothing in most Western law prevents you or I from jailbreaking the phone or cracking it open and looking at it under a microscope or whatever. Thats good. What would be perfect is of course publish schematics and manuals etc.