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by alex7734 4y ago
I'd go further and say that, for general purpose computing devices, it should be possible to fully use, repair and repurpose it without contacting the vendor ever again. That is, bootloader locking and remote attestation should be fo
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by alex7734 4y ago
To get 3 billion dollars? It's not a large amount of money for the US but it's 3 billion dollars...
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by alex7734 4y ago
You have SafetyNet in Android which does the same thing, prevent device or app tampering.
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by alex7734 4y ago
The same thing every government does: pocketing it or spending it in whatever they think will give them the most votes or influence.
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by alex7734 4y ago
> It's a dystopian nightmare only second to online ads. But ads at least can be blocked — you have zero agency in case of Cloudflare. About that, I imagine the millisecond that you can validate using remote attestation that a client
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by alex7734 4y ago
The goal is not to prevent you from running Linux, is to make it so that Linux cannot access the content you are interested in. Remote Attestation establishes a root of trust that can be used to verify that all of the software down the line
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by alex7734 4y ago
You can still have FRP with an unlockable bootloader. Just place the unlock bootloader button after the forced Google login so that even if you factory reset the phone you cannot unlock the bootloader without the Google account. In fact tha
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by alex7734 4y ago
Very good. Even politicians can do a good thing every once in a while. Now, can we get rid of hardware remote attestation and impossible-to-unlock bootloaders please?