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My statement above is simplified, thanks for your additions. > How about non-approved images pumping power upstream above regulatory limit on RF? This is poss
by exDM69 8y ago
My statement above is simplified, thanks for your additions.
> How about non-approved images pumping power upstream above regulatory limit on RF?
This is possible through other means (you can buy RF chips and wreck havoc on the frequencies). And it's illegal to do so anyway.
>Or overclocking the CPU? Or reporting all keystrokes to a place of your choice?
I, the owner of the device, might want to do this and these are sometimes completely reasonable things to do (if you're a developer, for instance).
> Would you, as a manufacturer of the device, like to make that easily possible?
Probably not, but that goes against the interests of the customer. ("but most of them won't care anyways")
> What makes it impossible is not the secure boot but the fact that the _unauthorized_ 3rd parties don't have the keys for signing stages of the images.
I am completely fine with this if, and only if, I can add my own secure boot keys and sign my own firmwares/OS images which allow.
I, the owner of the device, should be an "authorized" party when it comes to my device.
I am willing to accept that I do not get 8k service from YouFlix Inc if I add my own keys.
I have no problem with secure boot (the technology) but I do take issue when it is used to limit the rights of the owner to their own device.
- minipci1321 8y agoI actually replied for the sake of technical discussion (secure boot is ~1/10 of what a decent DRM should be, and adding the remaining 9/10 is a huge cost for the manufacturer). But since you say: > I, the owner of the device, ... I am tempted to ask -- how much would you agree to pay for a phone that is working but will never be able to connect to the network (no 4G and no WiFi)?
- estebank 8y agoThat... is not a phone? It's a pocket computer, isn't it? I could absolutely see a value for such a device, although I don't see why "no WiFi".
- minipci1321 8y agoThen -- back to my question -- would you agree to pay $600 for an iPad of the size of the iPhone, with no network capability?
- exDM69 8y ago> ... phone that is working but will never be able to connect to the network ... If you're implying that devices without locked bootloaders can't connect to RF networks, that's just incorrect. There are lots of devices that aren't locked, and it wasn't a common practice a decade ago.
- gdfasfklshg4 8y agoWhy no WiFi? This makes absolutely no sense at all. 4G is also a pointless restriction. It is illegal to connect a device with the wrong specification to 4G networks already. This does not need to be enforced by DRM it is already enforced by law.