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The Dangers of Microsoft Pluton

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733 points gjsman-1000 | 3 comments | 26 Jul 22 03:46 UTC | HN request time: 0.512s | source
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Gh0stRAT ◴[26 Jul 22 06:26 UTC] No.32235028[source]▶
I'm completely missing how his example of a Word document that can only be opened by approved users on approved hardware within the corporation is supposed to be a bad thing.

Honestly, that sounds pretty fantastic. I've been using 3rd party tools/extensions to do this sort of thing in corporate and government environments for years, but having the attestation go all the way down to the hardware level is a big value-add, especially with so much ransomware/spyware/extortion/espionage going on these days.

Can someone please explain to me how the author might see this level of security as a bad thing?

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BiteCode_dev ◴[26 Jul 22 06:45 UTC] No.32235149[source]▶
The capacity for abuse is huge, way beyong the potential benefits.

From the USA, we get news of banned book in some states. When I read that, my head goes back to my european history, and I reach the Godwin point very quickly.

Those kind of people will abuse such system to prevent things to be shared.

It will be used for putting DRM on everything and create a more and more closed web.

It will be used by corporations and govs to prevent wisthleblowers and journalists to do their job. Or to prevent employees to get evidences of mistreatments in case they need to sue.

Because if you look at it, it's basically just a system for information control. And bad actors love that.

And of course it will be "for security reasons".

Trusting people with a terrible track record to not abuse a massive power in the future, espacially one that can be scaled up with the push of a button once the infrastructure is in place, is not a good bet.

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aaronbrethorst ◴[26 Jul 22 07:00 UTC] No.32235233[source]▶
Ron DeSantis doesn't need hardware-level DRM to ban math books.

https://www.baynews9.com/fl/tampa/news/2022/05/06/florida-ba...

If you're worried about book bannings in states like Florida, DeSantis is up for reelection in just over 3 months. Go volunteer or donate money to his opponent (probably Charlie Crist).

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RedComet[dead post] ◴[26 Jul 22 08:00 UTC] No.32235569[source]▶
geysersam ◴[26 Jul 22 08:54 UTC] No.32235894[source]▶
> pornographic examples in it

I can't fathom a math textbook with pornographic examples. Is this a thing in the US?

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1. nobody9999 ◴[26 Jul 22 09:23 UTC] No.32236064[source]▶
>> pornographic examples in it

>I can't fathom a math textbook with pornographic examples. Is this a thing in the US?

I've been out of school for quite a while, but AFAIK while there is plenty of porn out there, it's not in our math books.

No, it's just Florida politicos pandering to their base[0].

I'm guessing that what GP is going on about (please do correct me if I'm wrong) is probably some word problems that include references to non-heterosexual/non-binary folks, which seems to trigger the intolerant among us.

Which is a result of decades of attempts to put christian dogma and ideology back into US public schools, and failing that, destroy the public school system.

And more's the pity.

[0] https://www.politico.com/news/2022/05/05/fldoe-releases-math...

Edit: Added the missing link.

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2. unixhero ◴[26 Jul 22 10:33 UTC] No.32236476[source]▶
Music videos are now porn!
3. autoexec ◴[26 Jul 22 11:38 UTC] No.32236932[source]▶
according to an article linked elsewhere (https://www.baynews9.com/fl/tampa/news/2022/05/06/florida-ba...) it was because they had too many black people depicted as athletes and they had word problems that treated scientific facts as if they were scientific facts.

The one example that I thought might have been somewhat improper was "Multiple exercises related to a debate between Al Gore and Rush Limbaugh, where the publisher was in favor of Al Gore's arguments based on the questions in the exercises."

If the debate in question was fictional, I'd be tempted to agree it would have been better to avoid using the names of real people although I'd disagree that is enough to ban the use of the textbooks. If the debate was actual and the textbook pointed out very real flaws with Rush Limbaugh's logic (especially if they were a real world example of bad math) I'd say that it makes perfect sense to include it in a math text book.