This might be hyperbolic, but I worry that this will further cement the stranglehold that Big Tech has on us, broadly speaking, as hackers. Remote attestation,

This might be hyperbolic, but I worry that this will further cement the stranglehold that Big Tech has on us, broadly speaking, as hackers. Remote attestation, hardware-backed DRM, TPMs and other Microsoft-favoured technologies exist to wrest control of a computer from a user with physical access to "the rights holder" or "the IT department". Say what you want about memory vulnerabilities (they're a bad thing!), I secretly like the fact that everything has an implementation bug for a determined enough attacker. It means that if you own a device and have unrestricted physical access to it -- something that only really happens if you own a device -- then you're likely able to bend its software to your will. That's what hacking is about, after all! I worry that this architecture will end up in HDCPv3 chips, or as an embedded SOC (or chiplet) in the next x86 processors, constantly checking that everything is okay. People say that this idea leading to hating behind trusted computing is paranoid, but as every rooted Android user knows, it's not.