The ability to use a General Purpose Computer and an IP address (non-NAT!) gives anybody the ability to publish without any gateway or authority being able to c

The ability to use a General Purpose Computer and an IP address (non-NAT!) gives anybody the ability to publish without any gateway or authority being able to control what can be published. This is real power, in the long-term. It is logical that the people who traditionally hold the power of what information can be published to large audiences - that is, the people that used to control the scarce resources that limited publication - would really like to see all these troubling technologies stuffed back into Pandora's Box and locked away behind the traditional gatekeepers where they won't cause trouble. It's called the Digital Imprimatur[1], and it has been implemented while everybody else was busy distracted by technical minutia and dreams of stock options. Locking down "true"-root access with SGX (or other hardware tricks like SecureBoot) is one of the last steps. If we fail fight this trend right now... well... what good is a compiler when you can't trust[2] the environment it is running in? [1] https://www.fourmilab.ch/documents/digital-imprimatur/ https://www.fourmilab.ch/documents/digital-imprimatur/ [2] (pdf) https://www.ece.cmu.edu/~ganger/712.fall02/papers/p761-thompson.pdf https://www.ece.cmu.edu/~ganger/712.fall02/papers/p761-thomp...