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I can't help but wonder if I'll wax nostalgic one day about the unfettered access I had to general purpose computers that I could make do almost anything as the
by noonespecial 14y ago
I can't help but wonder if I'll wax nostalgic one day about the unfettered access I had to general purpose computers that I could make do almost anything as the "think of the children" types of that day tut-tut about how madly dangerous it all was.
- arethuza 14y agoThat is one of the themes in Vinge's Rainbows End: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbows_End http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbows_End It describes a near future where it is a legal requirement that all computing devices conform to a "Secure Hardware Environment" (SHE) standard.
- joeycfan 14y agoGonna happen unless we fight like Hell and even then it's gonna happen.
- TazeTSchnitzel 14y agoThat sounds eerily similar to the UEFI Secure Boot system.