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Is it a joke? There are multiple alternatives, for Microsoft Windows or other Microsoft products like Office or Azure.
by weird_trousers 1y ago
Is it a joke?
There are multiple alternatives, for Microsoft Windows or other Microsoft products like Office or Azure.
- k__ 1y agoSo, trusting someone else is a solution?
- dsr_ 1y agoTrusting something you can verify is a solution.
- k__ 1y agoWhich DRM solutions like TEE and FHE are, so I don't see the issue.
- WD-42 1y agoYes? Isn't that how trust works? You stop trusting those that don't deserve it. Unless you're a complete isolationist and/or sociopath living off the land in the woods, you need some level of trust in others.
- Groxx 1y agoThe tradeoff here is "do you want to trust this repeat abuser again, or trust someone else who has not been [as] abusive?", not "do you want to trust this repeat abuser again, or nobody ever again?" You're presenting an extreme example of a false dichotomy.
- k__ 1y agoI don't see MS as the problem, but the structure of how we, as a society, create and use IT. Signal uses DRM to protect its users from the OS. This is nice, because now they don't have to run to some other companies that could do the same thing.
- caned 1y agoIn such a case as this, yes. Not every systems product is designed to exfiltrate your data.