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Thing is OS is becoming so much less relevant with the browsers and mobile - what's the end goal here ? Even without admin access they can't gate keep you like
by moonchrome 4y ago
Thing is OS is becoming so much less relevant with the browsers and mobile - what's the end goal here ? Even without admin access they can't gate keep you like iOS can because iOS mandates the browser engine and won't let it become powerful enough to circumvent the app store - Microsoft can't ever really do that with Windows and with things like WASM and better APIs I suspect web is going to keep growing as an app platform.
So what's the play behind this lockdown ?
- jrsj 4y agoProbably mainly to make it impossible to disable “telemetry” spyware or other invasive “features” like treating torrent clients as if they were malware etc.
- blibble 4y agoremote attestation is a big one netflix / online games / banking applications / ... will be able to check if your computer is tamperproof and will refuse to run if not you already see this on android with safetynet: https://developer.android.com/training/safetynet/attestation https://developer.android.com/training/safetynet/attestation the other one is they'll be able to gatekeep the applications running on Windows (again like mobile phones)
- _aavaa_ 4y agoSame thing happening on iOS right now. Banking app refuses to run if you jailbroke your phone
- sky-kedge0749 4y agoThe TPM is used for various security features, see: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/security/information-protection/tpm/how-windows-uses-the-tpm https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/security/informatio.... Providing better security is the play.