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Part of full ownership of a computer is reserving the right to "lie" to any code running on it about its execution environment. This could be for examining mal

Part of full ownership of a computer is reserving the right to "lie" to any code running on it about its execution environment. This could be for examining malware, testing, reverse-engineering, or anything else. There are still plenty of people unconcerned with the economics of multi-tenant cloud hosting, DRM, or prevention of cheating in videogames.

AgentME 7y ago
There's benefits to a system where you have full control and visibility into everything that executes, and there's benefits to systems where that isn't true. I hope 100% open CPUs exist and that there continues to be a strong software ecosystem that works with open CPUs. But it's a fact of the matter that CPUs with stuff to support DRM exist, and we might as well see if we can get some strong pro-user / pro-privacy functionality out of it.