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willcipriano ◴[] No.36862717[source]
Why can't you fake remote attestation? I imagine it's a bit more involved than swapping a user agent but is there some magic mechanism that makes it impossible to spoof?
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Santosh83 ◴[] No.36862809[source]
Maybe not impossible but my understanding is the TPM and the closed source nature of the system level code will make it difficult enough that 99% of users will not be able to do it, which is what industry wants. They're never worried about diehards and hermits. Those people will be confined to their caves & made irrelevant.
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1. cxr ◴[] No.36863136[source]
That's backwards. It's the diehards (i.e. determined adversaries) they are thinking about. 99% of users are already not doing this stuff. They want a way to continue servicing that 99% and shut out the remainder. That's the whole point.