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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: 0.2s | 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. r3trohack3r ◴[26 Jul 22 15:29 UTC] No.32239680[source]▶
This was the case at my university. In order to use the dorm network, you had to download a software package that validated your setup. It would then add your computer (I assume MAC) to an allow-list.

In order to deal with it, I had to create a subnet with a router, use an old laptop to do the verification, and then the whole subnet was added to the allow-list.