Is there a system that avails brakes independently of WOW
I believe other systems just rely on wheel spin up to activate anti-skid.
I think we saw an incident with a 37 of Southwest at IAH with anti-skid deactivated and pilot was early on the brakes causing an MLG tyre/tire fire.
So it appears one switch to activate brakes, lift dumper/spoilers, and unlatch T/R's and whatever else.
One would estimate there should be some additional redundancy as well as alternate means to activate the systems.
Greasing a switch just does not seem to be the answer to a design problem.