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The Dangers of Microsoft Pluton

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733 points gjsman-1000 | 2 comments | 26 Jul 22 03:46 UTC | HN request time: 0.519s | source
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userbinator ◴[26 Jul 22 05:05 UTC] No.32234457[source]▶
What is to prevent school WiFi from one day requiring a Pluton assertion that your Windows PC hasn’t been tampered with before you can join the network?

Remote attestation is the true enemy of your freedom. The power of the authoritarian corporatocracy to force you to use only the (entire) systems they control. It's worth reading https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.en.html again just to see how prescient Stallman was.

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raxxorraxor ◴[26 Jul 22 09:44 UTC] No.32236203[source]▶
Same with TPM and why it had so many critics. Some people still seem adamant to say that boot viruses are the greatest threat in the 21st century, but the economic interest are far more dangerous for general computing in my opinion. And it isn't even close.
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vanderZwan ◴[26 Jul 22 10:38 UTC] No.32236517[source]▶
So basically, Cory Doctorow's "The Upcoming War Against General Computation"?

https://boingboing.net/2011/12/27/the-coming-war-on-general-...

https://github.com/jwise/28c3-doctorow/blob/master/transcrip...

Don't know enough about the subject to tell if his "attempts to control general computation will converge on rootkits" prediction has held up.

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1. q-big ◴[26 Jul 22 11:04 UTC] No.32236702[source]▶
To this talk, there exists a less well-known sequel:

DEF CON 23 - Cory Doctorow - Fighting Back in the War on General Purpose Computers

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pT6itfUUsoQ

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2. vanderZwan ◴[27 Jul 22 08:18 UTC] No.32248058[source]▶
Thank you for bringing this to my attention, will check it out after work