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if I'm reading this right there's no hardware damage at all, the "paperweight" comment just means they've successfully mitigated against a specific device, rendering it useless for this purpose, but it still works as intended against vulnerable games.
Kind of a nothing burger honestly, if I'm understanding right. Scary that they have that much access tho, which is the real problem, since they're leaving a whole bunch of other peoples' front doors wide open