Good. Enough freedom has already been destroyed in the name of hostile "security".
I suspect many far-East "MCU break" services companies already knew of such things, but obviously would not want to publicise it.
johncolanduoni · 52m ago
Name one person who couldn’t do something on a retail Intel computer they owned, because it had a TPM
mindslight · 19m ago
George 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 backfired. 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".
I suspect many far-East "MCU break" services companies already knew of such things, but obviously would not want to publicise it.
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 backfired. 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".