Stop playing devil's advocate. It's worse than useless because it takes away the best part of computing: our freedom to own, operate and modify. > Expecting th

Stop playing devil's advocate. It's worse than useless because it takes away the best part of computing: our freedom to own, operate and modify. > Expecting the x86/MS platform to stay open forever is not realistic, because the incentives are biased towards locking down. It's only unrealistic when these fatalist certainties are pushed as inevitable. Free, live free is more than the name of a novella, it's an act to be performed, to fight for. So yes, say no to the TPM and other such measures such as SafetyNet, which are worse than useless to the most important endgame, to live free.