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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: 0s | 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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1. q-big ◴[26 Jul 22 14:25 UTC] No.32238710[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.

Keep in mind that now many of the people who post on HN earn a lot of money by working a company for which it is part of the business model to track users and collect data about them (officially for advertisement purposes).