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.
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.
If you play video games, you probably have a couple of neat kernel rootkits installed as "anti cheat".
A lot of remote proctoring stuff for exams are looking a lot like rootkits too.
EDR/XDR is also just rootkits. For security. The only thing that can stop a bad guy with a rootkit is a good guy with a rootkit, after all.
Of course, I guess most people don’t care.
The TVs are hardwired, it’d be trivial to have an accomplice show answers or whatever on them.