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This is just a "gut feeling" but I would suspect this has less to do with securing the OS and more to do with future changes to the network stack so that anyone
by LinuxBender 2y ago
This is just a "gut feeling" but I would suspect this has less to do with securing the OS and more to do with future changes to the network stack so that anyone using a VPN can be tied back to a piece of hardware at some point in the future much like there is a network ID in Firefox that users can not easily change. Playing the long game if you will. Either a gut feeling or it was that breakfast burrito.
- freedomben 2y agoIndeed, I think this is part of a long game to make it so that all network requests can be hardware attested that the user is running a known and/or "blessed" system. It's not just Microsoft either, but all the big techs (Apple, Google, etc). Riff raff like us that run Linux will have to switch or say goodbye to most of the internet. Other parts of this include Apple's Private Access Token, and Google's Web Environment Integrity. Once they have all that done and covering the large majority of users, the ratcheting will start. Using the internet without one of these blessed systems will be much like it is using Tor today (endless CAPTCHAs, lot's of refusing to work, etc).
- LinuxBender 2y agoUsing the internet without one of these blessed systems will be much like it is using Tor today (endless CAPTCHAs, lot's of refusing to work, etc). I hope it does not end up that way but would not be surprised if it does. In that case I would probably just use a Windows or Apple machine as a proxy for sites that required such behavior if it were feasible.
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