Intel OEM Private Key Leak: A Blow to UEFI Secure Boot Security

There's an upside to this. It can be used politically as an argument against backdoors for "lawful access"[1] to encrypted data.

[1] https://www.fbi.gov/about/mission/lawful-access

The argument doesn't matter because the federal government and politicians don't give a shit about facts

Until their PCs get hacked and their medical and psychiatrists' notes about them become front page news.

Sorry, what? This literally happened, THIS YEAR, and not a single one cared beyond saying "oh no, this is terrible, if only there was something we could have done!"

https://apnews.com/article/congress-data-breach-hack-identit...

Alternatively: Stuff is going to be leaked anyways, so we might as well also make it easy for law enforcement to do their job.

Their job is not what you think it is.

It's to maintain the status quo no matter how corrupt or abhorrent it is. The word enforcement says it all.

Of course that's their job. The police force is not designed to be a vehicle for social change nor for justice.

The way the system is supposed to work is that engaged citizenry actively overhaul unjust laws and apparatuses, and the police then enforce those new laws.

Unfortunately we have abysmally low civic engagement in most of the western world which leads to the mess we are currently in.

I like to make fun of the French as much as anyone else but I really respect and admire the French people's propensity for protest and to stand up for what they believe. That's advanced citizenship in action.

Advanced citizenship is about not needing revolutions, it is a sustainable governing process existing, one that integrates citizens in their daily lives. So far, I've seen shittier governments take out better ones, because they have more might. I don't think what is currently on Earth is by any means close to ideal because governments spend so much resource on worrying about other governments taking them out.

I'll agree that the citizens of France feel empowered while Americans feel disempowered. And empowerment is a natural consequence of identification with control of larger structures.

Most Americans don't feel like they have any control over larger structures in their countries.