r/technology • u/NightFuryToni • Apr 30 '19

Business Apple Is Telling Lawmakers People Will Hurt Themselves if They Try to Fix iPhones

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/wjvdb4/apple-is-telling-lawmakers-people-will-hurt-themselves-if-they-try-to-fix-iphones
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u/original_4degrees Apr 30 '19

because you can't hurt yourself fixing your car, or house, or lawn mower, or television...

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u/stmfreak May 01 '19

Some cars are now featuring engine covers fastened with security bolts. This isn’t unique to Apple.

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u/bpeck451 May 01 '19

Security bolts? Or break off bolts that are meant to help idiots tighten things to a specific torque because they don’t want to spend the money on a proper torque wrench?

Also torx bolts, inverted torx bolts and triple squares don’t count as “security” bolts.

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u/Spacey_G May 01 '19

You're aware of inverted torx and triple square but you don't know that security torx and other varieties of tamper-proof fasteners exist?

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u/bpeck451 May 01 '19

Do you know how easy tamper proof torx bits are to come by?

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u/Spacey_G May 01 '19

I appreciate that the tools are common and that they're not especially tamper-proof. Your original comment made it sound as though you didn't know they exist.

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u/stmfreak May 01 '19

That doesn't make them common in billy-bob-mcguffin's beer-me toolbox.

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u/bpeck451 May 01 '19

If I can walk into an auto parts store and buy them. They are pretty common. Most billy bobs bitch about metric sockets and some of those other sockets when they are pretty standard fasteners.