epoxy

For $10/unit it seems like they could afford to at least give it an epoxy surround.

Actually, it's not glued with epoxy resin or something like that.

Why not just order regular boards, cut the USB headers off with wire cutters and fill the ports with epoxy?

To solve that you might need to epoxy a wireless transmitter into one of the ports and pair it with mice/keyboards as needed.

If the FBI didn't want anyone tampering with the unit, they would have potted it in heavy epoxy or welded the case shut.

That section seemed to be leading up to a moment of genius and a thrilling conclusion, but it looked like it was just epoxy in the end.

Nobody wants "low modulus epoxy", whatever that is!

If you're selling tomatoes, you can probably still dip them in wax varnish to make them shine, and add "water" drops made of epoxy to sexy them up[2].

Why can't the circuit board be coated with plastic, epoxy, non-conductive paint, or something to prevent the whiskers from causing a short?

Optics can easily be made to work immersed in water, electronics can be slathered in epoxy so you don't get any short circuits.

Yes, the 27" will have the same epoxy around the rim of the display, but the RAM is very-much user-accessible via a port on the back of the 27" model.

One of the comments states that tinfoil pieces in clear epoxy photographed from several angles were used as tamper proof seals during the cold war era.

Second, the rest of the design was created specifically for the optimal application of the epoxy spray that prevents your drink from developing a metallic taste.

If you break the epoxy seal and don't re-seal it with a suitable epoxy strip you're probably running the risk of any under-warranty claims being rejected by Apple should you need to have them service your machine.

Sure, one of these theoretically replaces 20 incandescents and uses less electricity, but an incandescent light bulb is just a tiny tungsten wire + steel leads + glass + aluminium base + a drop of epoxy, all made in one factory with extraordinary efficiency that has been polished through 100 years of manufacturing.