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The Dangers of Microsoft Pluton

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733 points gjsman-1000 | 1 comments | 26 Jul 22 03:46 UTC | HN request time: 0.238s | 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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1. slowmovintarget ◴[26 Jul 22 14:07 UTC] No.32238451[source]▶
...and before Stallman, Hayek. Hayek couldn't have seen the technological means, but he did see the "self-regulated monopolies" shaping up from anti-competition moves on the part of government (most of which are driven by lobbying).