8 ms·
Oh, the people who work on secure boot, attestation, DRM, and other such features know very well, but don't care. This is because the claimed benefits for them,
by bragh 4mo ago
Oh, the people who work on secure boot, attestation, DRM, and other such features know very well, but don't care. This is because the claimed benefits for them, such as less hackers, less malware, less bot traffic, outweigh any possible downsides for the society.
- JohnFen 4mo agoI think it's even worse than that. Our industry has a strong track record of only looking at potential upsides (and pretending they're certain) and not even seeing that there may be serious downsides. It's a kind of blindness. The kind that is, in my opinion, is one of the major reasons why we ended up building a world that's more than a bit dystopian.
- account42 4mo agoThere is definitely a common type of computer security enthusiast for whom the need for security is absolute and costs don't even enter the equation.
- trumpdong 4mo agoThe difference is who controls it. If you want to set up secure boot with your own keys, good on you, go for it.
- account42 4mo agoThat's exactly the shortsighted view I'm talking about - you are ignoring the cost of building/adopting a system that you may not control in the future.
- izacus 4mo agoIronically, Signal folks have shown those leanings a lot when they forbade people from backing up their messages.