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It reminds me of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Management_Engine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Management_Engine. They wanted to control your comput
by renegat0x0 3y ago
It reminds me of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Management_Engine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Management_Engine.
They wanted to control your computer. Palladium, and other features also is about control. Remote attestation is about control. Embrace extend extinguish was about control and money.
Since inception nobody said that IME was for the user. Nobody said that Palladium is for the user. Google arguments are all propaganda. Nicey nicey words for the people.
Judging about the amount of recent pressure on open source, and encryption we are already toasted. Cyber resilience act, earn it act, patriot act, restrict act. It is all written using nice words, but I am interested in effect. It is all about crypto wars, and taking possession of your computer. About limiting anonymity and privacy using only arguments against it.
Big companies already have monopoly. They can already shadow ban, ban users, decrease reach of comments, track users using fingerprinting, cookies etc. They can decide what is acceptable, what is not, what is a social norm, what is not, what is a conspiracy theory, and not. Why do they need also breaking the encryption, or force signed software? Why they require more control? Because they can. Corporations lobby for more power, they receive more power. Where is the limit? Government also only benefits from corporations accumulating more powah.
I do not understand how people may think about how 'good' these things will bring, because on the scales there is something really terrifying - a Government that can spy on you without any problems, where you cannot hide. Through surveillance laundering, where government buys user data. Through censorship where government can moderate anything it wants to through hidden portals for the government [1]. Maybe the problem is that the western world never really experience communism.
[1] https://reclaimthenet.org/new-zealand-government-facebook-content-takedown-portal/ https://reclaimthenet.org/new-zealand-government-facebook-co...
By the way. I understand the difference between moderation and censorship
- ftaghn 3y ago>They wanted to control your computer. Palladium, and other features also is about control That level of control was already achieved on mobile. Android is the wet dream that Microsoft had with palladium and failed to execute. I can't use my banking app on a degoogled phone. It requires an untempered, manufacturer provided rom, and it will not run on a rooted phone either. The thing is, the banking app is not a side toy for me to just check up my accounts or do bank transfers instead of using the website, it's the only tool the bank provides to allow for online payment validation. You /need/ the app to make online payments with my bank. No app, no using your credit card online at all. Want the app, need to live under google (or iOS, which is even more closed and disgusting). Palladium is real today.