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What kind of people ? Your average person can't do squat if targeted by a state actor anyway (except complaining to their own state about it, and let them sort
by BlueTemplar 3y ago
What kind of people ? Your average person can't do squat if targeted by a state actor anyway (except complaining to their own state about it, and let them sort it out).
It's another thing when it comes to resisting surveillance capitalism :
https://web.archive.org/web/20180919021829/https://www.alexrad.me/discourse/why-rosyna-cant-take-a-movie-screenshot.html https://web.archive.org/web/20180919021829/https://www.alexr...
It's completely disproportionate that Hollywood is making people lose control of their own computers because they are worried about copyright infringement !!
That a boycott of Intel and Ryzen CPUs, "Trusted" Platform Modules, and Windows (8+) also probably makes the job of NSA/CIA/FBI harder (because they have likely backdoored them) is just a bonus.
(Of course there's also a potential failure mode that some much more hostile actors might get their hands on some of these backdoors, but it doesn't seem worth worrying about it until we get a high profile example of that happening ?)
Of course if you have the responsibility of, say, protecting your non-US company from industrial espionage, the situation is very different.