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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: 0.21s | 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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1. oofbey ◴[26 Jul 22 14:17 UTC] No.32238583[source]▶
A lot of this rant reminds me of the justification for crypto. The techno-anarchists are terrified of authority they can’t hack around. The fact that some governments abuse their power implies no authority should ever have any power. If we can’t break the rules then the world will end. It’s a slippery slope from content providers getting paid to complete big brother 1984.