3 ms·
That's interesting, I remember thinking that the original notion of Tivoization did apply to what Tivo did (including what you describe). I wonder if this is a
by schoen 3y ago
That's interesting, I remember thinking that the original notion of Tivoization did apply to what Tivo did (including what you describe).
I wonder if this is a point of disagreement between FSF and SFC -- I know they now have several disagreements.
In a similar time frame, I criticized attestation features in trusted computing because they would allow (in fact one of their main purposes was to allow) network services to allow only certain software configurations to interact with them. And I thought I was talking about a similar concept!
Thanks for sharing those links.
- pabs3 3y agoYou may be thinking of SFLC, their disagreements with FSF are much larger. SFC's disagreements with FSF are mostly related to keeping RMS around. Attestation is indeed a big problem today, especially around Android devices and proprietary apps that won't run on libre Android distributions. The attestation feature of WebAuthn could also become a problem, but that is somewhat mitigated by the Apple passkeys not being attestable.