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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: 0.235s | 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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kmeisthax ◴[26 Jul 22 15:01 UTC] No.32239298[source]▶
Top-voted comments are linking directly to Right to Read and The Coming War on General-Purpose Computing, so I don't think the community has forgotten its roots.

You really wanna be scared? Go look at the multiple comments on the EU DMA announcement complaining that having a sideloading option is just a ploy for malware vendors to get into their iPhones. Or that someone else being able to sideload or jailbreak somehow hurts their security. These are coming from actual HN users!

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1. userbinator ◴[26 Jul 22 19:41 UTC] No.32242961[source]▶
Well, my comment that linked to RtR was highly voted... But now it's near the bottom and what's at the top is, for lack of better phrasing, a corporate mouthpiece.

Was it voted so high it triggered some bot detection? That would only explain the former, not the latter. Either way, there's something funny going on.