Your budget to do the job I'm talking is between a few hundred and a couple thousand.

You will not have access to a Focused Ion beam at home, obviously, but there are labs you can draft a job to who will do it for you for between a few hundred and a couple thousand bucks, I do consider this a form of hacking but, it's gotten to the point where we're talking about fundamentally redesigning a SOC to disable it's security features.