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You think there's no value in your laptop being able to attest its state to your phone in order to give you confidence it hasn't been tampered with? That's some
by mjg59 2y ago
You think there's no value in your laptop being able to attest its state to your phone in order to give you confidence it hasn't been tampered with? That's something that would be entirely under your control.
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- ethbr1 2y agoThere's value in that, but it's a lesser value than the risk of normalizing manufacturer locking of computing devices. Because the immediate next step after locking devices down is profit extraction from users. Do you think Apple would have been able to maintain their App Store margins absent device control?
- mjg59 2y agoSo don't normalise manufacturer locking. We're not going to prevent the bad thing from happening by arguing against the hardware that enables the bad thing - we're going to need to argue against the bad thing.
- ethbr1 2y agoI would if I trusted them, but IMHO ever device manufacturer is looking at their slim hardware margins and wishing they were fat software margins. There's simply too much incentive for abuse. The only way I personally could see supporting them is if there were first a legislative requirement that trusted modules always be user-modifiable.