What is a hardware kill switch and why is it so slow?

This might be related - on this thread I provided a video of defective device where hardware kill switch no longer kills.

Purism offered RMA for defective device to review it and are waiting for me to get it sent to them. Random crap in my life and travels keeps getting in the way and it’s been a few months and defective device is not shipped to them yet, as it happens. Maybe soon.

Edit: Basically, if we assume HKS is actually software switch and can fail to kill, and US govt probably made it that way and made Purism and it’s all some kind of lie, to be honest I still use Librem 5 all the time, I like to dance the dance of living this lie because it is a lesser lie than living the lie of using Android, and of that I am quite convinced simply by how I feel using Purism tech

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