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That's only relevant for device manufacturers who want to prevent the device owners from controller their hardware. This is evil and not a use case worth supporting. Normal users care about secure boot because it protects their disk encryption.
I'm the IoT node design space and this is what we use. There is no sales or use case to repurpose the device one it's at the end of life, and we don't want people to do as such. The point of secure boot is to make sure it's only our firmware running, and only our firmware connecting to our backend with the appropriate keys. Anything else is a security nuisance at best and an company killing problem at worst. We're wi…
Second, you're creating e-waste when you go out of business. This is not something that should be legal.