puts tinfoil hat on Ensuring that a critical mass of people use remote attestation[0] capable devices. The next step is a browser API[1] for this so that cont

puts tinfoil hat on Ensuring that a critical mass of people use remote attestation[0] capable devices. The next step is a browser API[1] for this so that content owners can exclude devices capable of storing the content, or stripping out ads/tracking, etc. Sure, there will be a cat-and-mouse game where people will figure out how to fake the attestation for some period of time, but general computation[2] is probably on the way out. ---- [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Trusted_Computing&oldid=1270660346#Remote_attestation https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Trusted_Computing... [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36817305 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36817305 [2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUEvRyemKSg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUEvRyemKSg