> It's a bit of a "if you don't have anything to say you don't need free speech" argument. I'd rather have security for everyone because someone, sometime, will need it.

The saying is, saying you don't care about privacy because you have nothing to hide is like saying you don't care about free speech because you have nothing to say. The analogy works because they're actually analogous -- it's a private right vs. a government imposition in both cases.

This isn't that.

Doing things this way has costs. It once was that if you forgot your personal device password then you take it to a computer tech who uses "physical access=root" to reset your password or recover your files.

If you make that not practical anymore, how do we solve password recovery? "You lose all your data" is not something people want to hear. The current solution seems to be to backup everything into The Cloud. But I thought the idea was to improve security?

Meanwhile you can't actually know if a state-level attacker is able to penetrate the likes of Secure Boot until it's too late, and the chances are that they actually can. Which means interesting people still need physical security.