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Name one person who couldn’t do something on a retail Intel computer they owned, because it had a TPM
by johncolanduoni 1y ago
Name one person who couldn’t do something on a retail Intel computer they owned, because it had a TPM
- mindslight 1y agoGeorge Washington. But seriously, that's an ignorant criterion. It's not a matter of arbitrary people being singled out, it's a society-wide noose being tightened ever so slowly. Locked down boot chains were never fully asserted on amd64 because its market is for general purpose computers, and doing so would have obviously just caused people to choose alternative options. But remote attestation has no such escape hatch, and we can already see that dynamic starting to play out over in mobile land with "safety net".
- userbinator 1y agoit's a society-wide noose being tightened ever so slowly This. Fortunately there was a huge resistance against WEI, but we must remain vigilant to them attempting to sneak in something similar in the future.
- userbinator 1y agoTPMs being widespread and accepted is a problem. It means that everyone has been put into a noose, but one that just hasn't yet been tightened. As evidence of what we're up against, Stallman saw it coming 25+ years ago, kept warning about it, and look what they did to him. Relevant comment of mine 3.5 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29859999 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29859999
- tgsovlerkhgsel 1y agoComputers aren't there but phones will regularly cause issues, e.g. if you root it you can't use the banking apps and if you don't root it you can't back up your data (on Android).