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I wonder if Google has considered how this technology can be used against themselves? If WEI is deployed, we ought to use it to lock out Googlebot!
by Figs 3y ago
I wonder if Google has considered how this technology can be used against themselves? If WEI is deployed, we ought to use it to lock out Googlebot!
- vasachi 3y agoWeeeeeeell, Googlebot can just lie about itself, no?
- mike_hearn 3y agoYou can already lock out Googlebot because it respects robots.txt and its IP ranges are documented. It's very hard to "turn the tables" on companies when it comes to remote attestation because companies rarely directly lie to consumers about the true nature of their operations. When they do they tend to end up like Sam Bankman-Fried or Elizabeth Holmes. That's why all the big cloud vendors support remote attestation of servers to clients: https://cloud.google.com/confidential-computing https://cloud.google.com/confidential-computing So not only do they want you to demand remote attestations from their servers but they even document how to do it and provide significant infrastructure support to do so. Not many people are using it though, and when they do it's usually to generate trust in non-tech firms running software on top of those clouds. Which is certainly a decent use case, but it's more like defense in depth than something existential for most companies. Whereas the inverse can be existential (multiplayer shooters without anti-cheat will rapidly become unplayable because so many players will lie to get ahead).