[vreihen16]

What's the concern? From his repair perspective, it is obviously a problem to not be able to swap T2 chips (which handle the encryption IIRC) or download data from the soldered SSD. From a privacy perspective, it means that snooping TSA agents and state-sponsored computer forensics experts cannot gain warrantless access to your data by taking the machine apart and swapping components. Sounds like a desirable feature to me!

I have nothing to hide, but you can bet that every computer and smartphone that I own has hard drive encryption and every other security feature enabled, and all backups are encrypted to keep prying eyes out.....