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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: 0.622s | 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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SQueeeeeL ◴[26 Jul 22 05:43 UTC] No.32234704[source]▶
Damn, now I'm nostalgic for the older days of hacker news where RMS was quoted every other post. The community is forgetting it's roots.
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sillysaurusx ◴[26 Jul 22 05:52 UTC] No.32234763[source]▶
As someone who was here from day two, this is not how old HN was. It was many things to many people, and it’s very difficult to break out of the illusion that rose-tintedness tends to give us. (Guilty of it myself.)

HN has been consistently contrarian. That’s about all that you can say without quickly becoming mistaken.

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1. quetzthecoatl ◴[26 Jul 22 12:32 UTC] No.32237409[source]▶
>HN has been consistently contrarian. That’s about all that you can say without quickly becoming mistaken.

until recently. Just like reddit, it has become less niche and more mainstream. For eg: HN majority opinion on covid's origin. It matched the official US govt lines as it switched back and forth between market and lab.

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2. aidenn0 ◴[26 Jul 22 13:28 UTC] No.32237995[source]▶
Presumably, HN will turn into reddit, but nobody will believe it's happening because people have been predicting it's turning into reddit for over a decade.