Well, sure. I mean, one of these things just lets you hijack the boot process of a fully-patched operating system. The other one lets you add three mana to your mana pool at no cost!
You're right. One is a necessary tool for the most skilled actors to use against their greatest threats; the other is merely another vector for exploiting trusted computing primitives.
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