FORTUNE -- Last week, a Swedish design firm called Day 4 mocked-up a 3-D rendering of an odd-looking screw and posted it on Reddit, hinting that it was Apple's (AAPL) latest attempt to keep users from messing with the innards of its devices.
In a matter of hours, news of the "asymmetric screw" had spread across MORE
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